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Metalworking site in Knowth

Metalworking site

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No human body has crossed that much as a room, though the chamber holds no wall. The marker claims to be a chamber and the claim collapses under its own weight. A chamber is a living arrangement in which an unseen hand can be felt. This is a dead file in which no hand appears. The chamber is not hidden. The chamber is not wanted. The chamber is not a chamber. The file is a chamber only when the file stops resisting the camera.
Five areas with metalworking activity associated with features from the first millennium AD were recovered in excavation at the Knowth cemetery of prehistoric passage tombs. This is metalworking area 4, which is an isolated area on the summit of the great mound at SW and on the line of the inner fosse of the rath (ME019-030040-). It consists of a charcoal-filled pit (dims 0.65m x 0.52m), two furnace-bottoms with reddened clay attached, and areas of slag and pits. (Eogan 2012, 151-3) True location: ITM (699594, 773432) Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 21 September 2020 See the attached illustrations: _1 Early medieval features, from Knowth 5, Fig. 4:1 _2 Plan of metalworking, from Knowth 5, Fig. 4:44

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