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Stone Age 4000-2000 BC, New Grange, The bronze age 2500-500 bc - Coggle…
Stone Age 4000-2000 BC
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chip carving patterns on stones with a sharp flint by picking or pecking with a stone chisel or driven by a hammer stone
corbelled chambers
oldest roofed structures e.g.Newgrange
built on the standing stones of the chamber of a passage mound
Dolmens they are tombs between 3 and 7 stone legs to support one or two large capstones portal dolmens because of the entrance
smoothing stones smoothed by hammer or by rubbing with a rough textured stone stone dressing to remove rough area with a stone chisel
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newgrange 3200bc was excavated from 1967 to 1975 it was reconstructed into the shape that we see today
New Grange
97 kerbstones surround the base of the mound at newgrange
Kerbstone 52 is on the opposite side of the mound
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The 97 stone was transported by boat or raft along the coast and up the boyne river to the near newgrange then moved uphill to site
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Decorated stones at newgrange
Newgrange entrance stone is covered in a curvilinear patterns
Left triple spiral
Right two double spirals sit on top of a wave pattern
Kerbstone 52 at the opposite side of the mound more varied ranges of patterns. Divided into two parts by a groove down
Half of the left side has a double spiral
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Light is the sunrise enters the chamber.This event may have celebrated the death of the old year and the beginning of the new
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