What is recorded here

Half a kilometre from the great mound, a thin habitation layer stretched across eighteen square metres where people lived beside Tomb 6. Around three hundred Beaker sherds, perhaps thirty vessels, and twenty-nine flint tools marked the edge of a settlement that turned a burial ground into a neighbourhood. They may have come to tend the dead, trade with travellers, or simply claim the best view. The pottery still clusters in five places, as if kitchens, hearths and gathering spots had never fully released the land.

Five concentrations of Beaker pottery, part of Eogan’s Phase 5 – Final Neolithic / Beaker complex dating to c. 2500 – c. 2200 BC (Eogan and Cleary 2017, 42) are recorded around Tomb 1C. This is Concentration B, an area of about 18 square metres of a thin habitation layer just E of Tomb 6 on the W side of the great mound. Amongst the flints recovered were 29 artefacts, principally blades and rounded scrapers. Around 300 sherds of Beaker pottery were recorded representing about 30 vessels that appear to be Bell Beakers. (Eogan 1984, 260-69; Eogan and Roche 1997, 228) True location: ITM (699564, 773433) Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 06 November 2013 Amended: 17 September 2020 See the attached plans: _1 Cemetery plan from Knowth 6, Fig. 2:1 _2 Distribution of pottery at Concentration B from Knowth 1, Fig. 92

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