Maesmawr-type ovoid flint macehead, with cylindrical perforation towards narrow end. All six surfaces are decorated. Discovered in the right-hand recess of the chamber of Knowth Tomb 1B East.

Archaeology | Artefacts

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Collection of pestle- and ovoid-macehead clay pendants, recovered from the left-hand recess of the chamber of Tomb 1B East, Knowth.

Archaeology | Artefacts | Personal ornamentation

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Sherd of Carrowkeel ware, with outer surface decorated with two parallel lines formed by stag-and-drag ornament, applied by a left-handed person. Discovered in the right-hand recess of chamber of Tomb 1B East, Knowth.

Archaeology | Artefacts | Ceramics

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Knowth passage tombs under excavation, view from north, with excavation cuttings visible.

Archaeology | Excavation | Passage tomb

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Site workers excavating Cuttings 7-8 of Knowth Tomb 1C mound.

Passage tomb | Excavation | Archaeology

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Layering of Tomb 1C mound material in Cuttings 7-8 on north-western side of Tomb 1.

Archaeology | Excavation

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Quentin Dresser, Seán Galvin, Fiona Stephens, George Eogan and Tom Fanning at the entrance to the Western passage tomb, Tomb 1, Knowth, 11 July 1967.

Excavation

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Tom Fanning and Ann Gannon recording the discovery of the entrance to the passageway of the Eastern tomb, Knowth, 1 August 1968

Archaeology | Excavation

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John Rock and George Eogan at the opening to the passage of the Eastern tomb at Knowth, 1 August 1969

Archaeology | Excavation

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Carved basin stone in right-hand recess of the chamber of Knowth Tomb 1B East

Passage tomb | Artefacts | Megalithic art

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Carved orthostat, Western passageway, Tomb 1, Knowth

Passage tomb | Megalithic art

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Section of the passageway of the Western tomb, Knowth Tomb 1

Passage tomb | Megalithic art

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