Knowth Kerbstone 17
Knowth Kerbstone K17
The Megalithic Art of the Passage Tombs at Knowth, Co. Meath
Description of Kerbstone 17
The upper part of the stone is damaged, with consequent loss of carvings in that area.
Stage 1: straight, short lines are incised in irregular grid patterns in the middle and on the left of the stone.
There are also deeply struck short straight lines, occurring in a cluster in the middle of the stone
and more extensively on the lower-left; these appear to be overlaid by the picked serpentiform motif.
On the right there are some dispersed pickmarks.
Stage 2 is an anti-clockwise spiral near the right of the face, which is picked with a medium-sized,
rounded point. Stage 3 consists of a series of curvilinear motifs. A long serpentiform picked
with a heavy, rounded point runs right across the Stone and overlies the earlier spiral.
Above this on the right is a shorter serpentiform and parts of some short arcs, the upper parts of which are weathered and damaged.
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