Reading the Signs

The three famous burial mounds of the Boyne Valley, Newgrange, Knowth, and Dowth, form the heart of a complex, sacred landscape dating back to the early Neolithic period, c. 4000BC. In 1993, the Boyne Valley was formally designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site (Smyth et al 2009 vi), and continues to excite the national imagination by revealing new, previously unknown archaeological monuments; ‘Dronehenge’, a pit circle dating to c. 2900BC, was discovered during the dry summer of 2018, as was a t...