What is recorded here

Mountainstown holds a flat stone where a chevron touches a straight line, marking one of the oldest known drawings in Ireland. The stone survived drainage works and stile building because people kept moving it rather than breaking it. That much is clear. What is missing is the hand that drew it, the light that fell across the chamber, and the reason a simple angle felt worth carving into tomb stone.

A stone (dims 0.55m x 0.55m; T 0.15m) that had been in a drain was used in a stile. One surface has incised chevron touching a straight line at two points with two short lines parallel with lines of the chevron. (Ó Broin 2000; Eogan 2011, 14) See attached line drawing taken from O'Broin 2000, Fig. 2 Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 3 March, 2017

Neolithic passage tomb art; dates to approximately 3000–2500 BCE. The incised chevron and linear motifs reflect early symbolic or ritual artistic traditions associated with megalithic tombs in Ireland.

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