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Old Newgrange photograph taken by J.L. Stoddard in 1901 and published in his
book on Ireland in the Stoddard's Lectures series. Close inspection shows that
there is a face peering from the entrance and looks out over the famous
Newgrange entrance stone. (The stone had miraculously not found
its way into a landlord's or Irish antiquarian's garden. Perhaps it owes its
safe keeping to its sheer volume and weight.) The owner of the face has
both hands resting on the ground in front of him. There is no sign in this picture of the fantastic facade
that now exists at Newgrange. Tons of quartz stones were found at
the base of the mound and best archaeological interpretation then was that
these had fallen from place over the millennia and had at one time been
in place as a wall such as is now in place. The pathway to the right
of the picture shows where people and animals had ventured onto the
mound over the thousands of years since its construction. The path also
shows that the stones had indeed fallen from place and it is easy to
imagine a wall - without cement - falling from place over a 5000 year
period.
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