Ken Williams

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Light and shadow on the famous carved stone, numbered L19, in the passage of Newgrange. 5,000 years ago, people brought light, art and architecture together in the design of Irish passage tombs. The greatest example of all is found here at Newgrange, Co. Meath. #wintersolstice

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@Zuppy10 Is it Belfast?

Guess where?

Equinox illumination of Cairn T, Loughcrew, County Meath, Ireland. Taken twenty years ago, September 2005. Today, the interior of the cairn is closed to visitors due to safety concerns with the 5,000 year old structure. #equinox #megalithicart #irelandsancienteast #prehistoricart

@urbanprehisto This is the Ballinvally stone, now in the National Museum in Dublin but not on display. I think the photo is from the National Monuments Service but not 100% sure.

@shadowsandstone Thanks so much!

My latest #urbanprehistory blog post (number 182!) concerns a mysterious tiled mural of passage grave art to be found in #Belfast city centre Entry. If anyone has any more information about the tiles, or the motifs depicted, I would love to hear from you. theurbanprehistorian.wordpress.com/2025/09/15/pas…

@urbanprehisto Here’s the Knockmany stone. In old drawings it’s sometimes upside down, my pic which you are welcome to use.

@urbanprehisto Number 5 is a stone found in the 1960s at Ballinvally, Co, Meath, on farmland on the northern side of the hills of the Loughcrew cairns.

@urbanprehisto Have never seen this piece before, really nice! Panels 6 & 8 are both the same stone, on the right hand side of Knockmany passage tomb.

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@Zuppy10 Great weather you are having too! I’m heading there in two weeks :)

@shadowsandstone You're not wrong there Ken! What a landscape.

Guess where....

Another blast from the past...The beautiful Entrance Stone at Newgrange, you can see a definite line across the bottom of the stone where the art ends, this suggests that this stone was carved in situ around 5200 years ago. #keepdiscovering #newgange #brunaboinne

#12days2solstice Happy Solstice! Explore Newgrange like never before. This 3D model was created from scans taken by @DiscProg in 2014 & reprocessed in 2024 for #5Dculture buff.ly/423hxyb @NationalMons @HeritageHubIRE @HeritageIreOPW @Europeanaeu @TimeMachineEU @_in2t

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