What is recorded here

Sixteen centuries before Christ, hands cut shallow holes and stood timber in a narrow ring, making House Site No. 9 beside the great tombs of Knowth. It had no hearth and no visible floor scatter, yet it sat among decorated vessels and flints, suggesting people lived, argued, remembered and departed there. The absence of a fire does not mean absence of life; it may mean its traces dissolved into soil while the timber marking remained.

This Neolithic House Site, No. 9, is part of Eogan's Phase 3 Decorated Pottery complex: Domestic activity - Zone H, which includes an area beneath the entrance of Tomb 1C East, where 6 hearths have been recognised. This phase, now called Middle Neolithic, is associated with the building of the tombs and dated to c. 3500-2900 cal. BC (Eogan and Cleary 2017, 41). In this zone house site No. 9 was located c. 18m SE of the entrance area to the E tomb and is entangled with House Site No. 10 just to its SW. It consisted of a fairly complete circle (diam. 3.75m) of stake-holes, but no hearth or occupation layer is associated with it. The zone produced evidence of at 8 vessels as well as flints. (Eogan and Roche 1997, 65-71) True location: ITM (699665, 773435) Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 25 November 2013 Amended: 17 September 2020 See the attached plans: _1 Cemetery plan from Knowth 6, Fig. 2:1 _2 House plan from Knowth 2, Fig. 14

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