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This image has been taken from scan 000146 from volume 01 of "[Our own country. Descriptive, historical, pictorial.]". The title and subject terms of this image have been generated from tags, created by users of the British Library's flickr …

Orthostat 40 is located in the largest megalithic tomb (Tomb 1 West) at Knowth, County Meath, Ireland (ME019-030001-). It is decorated with extensive dispersed picking which occurs mainly in three horizontal bands at the upper-right of the stone, but also…

Kerbstone 42 is a decorated stone dating from the Neolithic, located on the outer edge of the largest megalithic tomb at Knowth, Co. Meath, Ireland (ME019-030001-). It depicts 2 rows of small circles, with 8 circles in each row. The circles have been pick…

Kerbstone 52 is a decorated stone dating from the Neolithic, located on the outer edge of the largest megalithic tomb at Knowth, Co. Meath, Ireland (ME019-030001-). It has been hypothesised as depicting a lunar phase cycle. In the centre is an anti-clockw…

Kerbstone 75 is a decorated stone dating from the Neolithic, located on the outer edge of the largest megalithic tomb at Knowth, Co. Meath, Ireland (ME019-030001-). Broad, ribbon-like lines, are picked on many of the ridges on the stone’s face. These line…

Kerbstone 77 is a decorated stone dating from the Neolithic, located on the outer edge of the largest megalithic tomb at Knowth, Co. Meath, Ireland (ME019-030001-). On the left there is a clockwise spiral. Below right, is a downward opening U-motif, encl…

Kerbstone 17 is located on the outer edge of the largest megalithic tomb at Knowth, County Meath, Ireland (ME019-030001-). This decorated kerbstone was carved over 3 stages. In the first stage short, straight lines were incised in the middle of the stone,…

This decorated orthostat is situated on the right hand side of the rear chamber of the passage tomb at Newgrange, Brú na Bóinne, Co. Meath, Ireland. The chamber stone is decorated with large areas of pick dressing. On the undressed surface a picked spiral…

Kerbstone 42 is a decorated stone dating from the Neolithic, located on the outer edge of the largest megalithic tomb at Knowth, Co. Meath, Ireland (ME019-030001-). It depicts 2 rows of small circles, with 8 circles in each row. The circles have been pick…

Kerbstone 47 is a decorated stone dating from the Neolithic, located on the outer edge of the largest megalithic tomb at Knowth, Co. Meath, Ireland (ME019-030001-). The stone was decorated in 2 stages. Initially, a finely-picked double spiral was picked o…

Kerbstone 34 is a decorated stone dating from the Neolithic, located on the outer edge of the largest megalithic tomb at Knowth, Co. Meath, Ireland (ME019-030001-). The stone was carved in 2 phases. Initially, motifs were lightly picked out with a medium-…

Kerbstone 13 is located on the outer edge of the largest megalithic tomb at Knowth, County Meath, Ireland (ME019-030001-). The main face appears to have been carved in 3 stages: Incised lines were carved into the face. These were later covered with …

Kerbstone 78 is a decorated stone dating from the Neolithic, located on the outer edge of the largest megalithic tomb at Knowth, Co. Meath, Ireland (ME019-030001-). The top edge is decorated with a wavy (serpentiform) line. Below this are 7 U-motifs, and …

Kerbstone 79 is a decorated stone dating from the Neolithic, located on the outer edge of the largest megalithic tomb at Knowth, Co. Meath, Ireland (ME019-030001-). In the middle of the stone is a large oval with a very wide, ribbon-like line. The oval en…

Kerbstone 67 is a decorated kerb stone dating from the Neolithic, located on the outer edge of the mound of the passage grave (ME019-045----) at Newgrange, Brú na Bóinne, Co. Meath, Ireland, and is located on the northern side of the mound. The left hand …

Kerbstone 67 is a decorated kerb stone dating from the Neolithic, located on the outer edge of the mound of the passage grave (ME019-045----) at Newgrange, Brú na Bóinne, Co. Meath, Ireland, and is located on the northern side of the mound. The left hand …

Kerbstone 51 is a decorated stone dating from the Neolithic, located on the outer edge of the largest megalithic tomb at Knowth, Co. Meath, Ireland (ME019-030001-). The decorations on this stone were carved in two phases: initially, a clockwise spiral was…

Greywacke kerbstone located immediately east of K4 along the southern perimeter of the Dowth Hall Passage Tomb (ME020-098----). Decorated with two pecked motifs on its southern/vertical face. The most westerly motif is a partial (1.5 revolutions), anticlo…

Greywacke orthostat located on the boundary between two stalls in the northern chamber of the Dowth Hall Passage Tomb (ME020-098----). Forming the northern side of Stall A, its south face has a natural shelf, below which there is a pecked circle and dot m…

Lintel E is a decorated stone dating from the Neolithic, located in the passage tomb at Fourknocks, Co. Meath, Ireland (ME033-028001-). It is situated above the entrance to the south recess within the tomb's chamber. The surface of the lintel is decor…

Kerbstone 7 is located on the outer edge of the largest megalithic tomb at Knowth, County Meath, Ireland (ME019-030001-). It is made of greywacke and decorated on its front and top faces. These were "pecked" into the surface using a sharp implem…

Kerbstone 121 is located on the outer edge of the largest megalithic tomb at Knowth, County Meath, Ireland (ME019-030001-). It is made of greywacke and decorated with motifs "pecked" into the surface using a sharp implement, possibly flint or qu…

Kerbstone 121 is located on the outer edge of the largest megalithic tomb at Knowth, County Meath, Ireland (ME019-030001-). It is made of greywacke and decorated with motifs "pecked" into the surface using a sharp implement, possibly flint or qu…

Kerbstone 124 is located on the outer edge of the largest megalithic tomb at Knowth, County Meath, Ireland (ME019-030001-). The motifs on its surface include a large spiral along with zig zags, diamonds and lines. These designs were "pecked" int…