Essay On Newgrange

Newgrange is a large circular hill with a diameter of ninety three yards, a height of fifteen yards, and an area of around one acre. The pathway inside Newgrange is under sixty feet long and guides you to a room with three openings that lead to other, smaller chambers. This room is roofed by a trussed supported ceiling, that has not been repaired in anyway since it was discovered. The cairn that covers the tomb is calculated to weigh two hundred thousand tons. Out of the three recesses the one on the right is made out of solid granite, and seems to be the most decorated. The remaining two basins are made out of typical sandstone. All three rooms have a big flat basin stone in which the corpses of the dead were most likely left. The pathway itself is composed of large stone slabs with an average height of one and a half meters; twenty two slabs on the left side and twenty one on the right side.
Michael J. O’Kelly and his archaeological team, believed that it would have taken a minimum of thirty years to transport and arrange all the stones in place. Another big part of Newgrange’s architecture is the Megalithic Art seen all over the building. Megalithic Art refers to the carving of spirals, circles, and curves into large rocks to make a unique pattern. The art is most notably seen in the entrance stone which weighs around five tons, being ten feet long and four feet high. There are ninety six other stones surrounding Newgrange, these are called kerbstone, and each has its own Megalithic piece of art engraved into it. There is a debate in the archeological community between whether this art was purely decorative or was meant to symbolize something. Could this have been the purpose of building Newgrange? To send a