Beyond Newgrange: Brú na Bóinne in the later Neolithic

• DOI: 10.1017/ppr.2021.6
• Publication Date: 2021-06-09T15:38:30Z
• Authors: Stephen Davis; Knut Rassmann
• Keywords: Megalith

The Brú na Bóinne World Heritage Site, Ireland is best known for its megalithic monuments, in particular the great developed passage tombs of Knowth, Dowth, and Newgrange, abundance art. However, our understanding wider landscape has changed beyond all recognition last decade owing to application modern, non-invasive survey technologies – LiDAR large-scale geophysical most recently as a result hot, dry summer 2018 which revealed series remarkable cropmarks between Newgrange River Boyne. Despite lack excavation it can be argued, based on their morphological characteristics, that many structures belong within corpus late Neolithic ritual/ceremonial structures, including earthen henges, square-in-circle palisaded enclosures, pit/post-alignments. These display both extraordinary diversity, yet also commonality design architecture, group with preceded them. This paper provides an up-to-date presumed Bóinne. It new evidence insights from ongoing campaigns, suggesting parallels British but insular development some monument classes.