What is recorded here

Knowth Tomb 8 is a ruined passage chamber beside the great mound, marked by twelve kerbstones and two carved with a circle and heart shape. Its western half vanished without trace, leaving a broken ring around an empty ground. The surviving stones still outline a narrow passage that once led into darkness, suggesting the cemetery held more than one buried life.

Knowth cemetery, Tomb 8:Located just 2m W of the great mound, Tomb 1C, and c. 12m NW of the entrance to the W tomb in that mound. The remains of a mound (diam. c. 13m; max. H 0.5m) of redeposited boulder clay covered with some shale is defined by a kerb of 12 surviving kerbstones N-E-S, with an indent at the entrance to the destroyed tomb at SE. The W part of its mound and kerb have been removed without trace. There is evidence of an undifferentiated passage tomb (L 6m plus; Wth c. 0.3-1.2m) opening at SE which was represented by the sockets of 11 orthostats, and some of the stones were present but displaced. Two kerbstones bear simple megalithic art, a light circle and a vague heart-shape. Further work in 1994 identified three orthostats from sockets at the outer edge of the passage (Eogan and Cleary 2017, 254-5). The mound is fully reconstructed. (Eogan 1974, 18-24, Site 8; 1984, 48-52, Site 8; 1986, 75) The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Meath' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1987). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 10 July 2007 Revised: 16 September 2020 See the attached plans: _1 from Knowth 6, Fig. 2:1 _2 from Knowth 1, Fig. 25

Passage tomb, dating to the Neolithic period (c. 3300–2500 BCE). It is part of the larger Knowth cemetery, one of the key components of the Brú na Bóinne World Heritage Site, significant for its early megalithic architecture and ritual landscape.

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