Knowth Passage Tombs. Megalithic Art, History & Astronomical Alignments. Brú na Bóinne, Ireland.

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00:00 Opening video
01:57 Knowth Main Mound
05:02 Satellite mounds
17:29 Megalithic art

Knowth is one of the greatest monuments of Neolithic Europe, situated in the Boyne valley.
The area of Brú na Bóinne has been a centre of human settlement for at least 6000 years.
It’s one of the world’s most important prehistoric landscapes dating from the Neolithic period.
The Brú na Bóinne is an ancient complex of Passage Mounds, chamber tombs, standing stones, henges and other prehistoric enclosures, some as early as dating from between 3500 and 3200 BCE.
The archaeological culture associated with this area is called the Boyne Culture.

Knowth is the largest and most remarkable ancient monument in Ireland, it has the largest number of megalithic art in Ireland, although Newgrange is more famous.
Neolithic farmers began construction at Knowth around 3300 BCE.
Knowth is similar in size to Newgrange, although it’s larger and it’s unique for being surrounded by 17 smaller satellite mounds.
The big mound is known as Site 1, it’s unique in the Boyne Valley because it contains 2 separate passages in an east-west alignment, each passage has it’s own chamber.
The height of the mound is approximately 11 meters and the base is 80 meters east-west and 95 meters north-south, it’s not a perfect circle, but more of an oval shape.

The excavators have found a mace head in both the eastern and western passage of the main mound.
The mace head from the western passage was found on July 12th 1967.
It is pestle shaped and incomplete, it’s broken across and at least half is missing.
It’s approximately 3,8 centimetres long and the end expands slightly outwards.
The surface is well polished, the hole is cylindrical and it 1,7 centimetres in diameter.
The object has been subjected to heat, most likely on the cremation pyre.

The mace head found in the Eastern passage was found more than a decade later on September 1st 1982.
It was lying on the ground surface of the entrance to the right hand side chamber.
Around it were 5 burial deposits, but all of them were deposited after the mace head had already been laid down and buried under a layer of shale.
The layer of shale was 4 square meters and around the mace head the layer was thickest.
When excavators picked the mace head up it cam apart in 3 pieces, and some hair-cracks are present.
The fracturing may have been ancient, one fractured surface had dendritic black staining.
The mace head is 7,9 centimetres long and weighs 324,55 grams.
The hole is 1,7 centimetres in diameter, just like the mace head found in the western passage.
It's a perfect cylinder that must have been bored by a tubular object, most likely a piece of wood or bone that was skilfully rotated.
All six sides of the mace head have been decorated.
The creation of this mace head from a block of flint, a hard stone that is difficult to sculpt, demonstrates a high level of craftsmanship and artistic capability.
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Music: Adrian von Ziegler

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sources:
http://carrowkeel.com/sites/boyne/knowth1.html
https://www.knowth.com/knowth.htm
https://www.knowth.com/lunar-maps.htm
https://www.knowth.com/current-archaeology.htm
https://www.newgrange.com/george-eogan.htm
EXCAVATIONS AT KNOWTH 6 The Passage Tomb Archaeology of the Great Mound at Knowth GEORGE EOGAN, KERRI CLEARY (Archaeological Editor)

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