Knowth Kerbstone K84
Kerbstone K84 is one of the 127 kerbstones numbered in Professor George Eogan's record of the Knowth monument. It is located on the north-western side of the great passage tomb mound.
Knowth Kerbstone K84.
The Megalithic Art of the Passage Tombs at Knowth, Co. Meath
Description of Kerbstone 84
Stage 1 comprises a series of faintly incised sines on the center-right of the main face. Some lozenges and zigzags can be identified. Stage 2 consists of a large, circular motif occupying the main face of the stone. A range of techniques can be noted, with some of the pickmarks being distinct and well-formed and others ill-defined.
A medium-sized, rounded point was used, and also a chisel with a medium-sized cutting edge. The motif has two central, concentric ovals with five enclosing arcs on the left and six on the right. Originally, the innermost at least of these might have been complete at the top, but the upper part of the stone is now missing. A small semi-circle is picked low down in the gap between the outermost arcs.
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Knowth Kerbstone K84.
Knowth Stone Age passage tomb
Kerbstone K84 is one of the stones encircling the Great Mound at Knowth, recorded in the numbered kerb sequence from K1 to K127. Twin passages at Knowth face broadly east and west. Older ideas that they targeted equinox sunrises and sunsets have given way to wider interpretations that allow both solar and lunar observation, and perhaps calendrical counting, among the motives of the builders.
The passage tombs of the Boyne were designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1993. Knowth, Newgrange and Dowth together represent one of the richest prehistoric landscapes in Europe, valued for their age, scale and megalithic art.
Knowth Kerbstone K84.
The central cairn is accompanied by eighteen satellite mounds. Knowth holds roughly a quarter of all recorded megalithic art in western Europe, with two major passages and decades of scientific excavation behind the story told today.
Knowth was raised more than five thousand years ago in the Neolithic period, around 3200 BC, when established farming communities were shaping the Boyne Valley. Together with Newgrange and Dowth, it forms the heart of the Brú na Bóinne World Heritage landscape.