mirrored file at http://SaturnianCosmology.Org/ For complete access to all the files of this collection see http://SaturnianCosmology.org/search.php ========================================================== Home Up Search Mail /NEW / ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Dowth Dowth is a mound not yet being excavated and is located in the Boyne Valley in Ireland (53^o 43' latitude North and 6^o 28' longitude West). It is more than 5000 years old, and thus older than the pyramids in Egypt! This building, which has a kerb around a big mound of some 84 meters in diameter, stands in the Boyne Valley, some 40 km north of Dublin. In this region two more big mounds are located: Knowth and Newgrange . Sunset at winter solstice In the following pictures one can see the sunset at winter solstice in the most southern (smallest) chamber. Due to the fact that a lot of trees are now standing in the sun path, the sunset is not that beautiful as it should have been in former times. It is expected that these trees will be cut in spring 1999 (communication with the landowner), so that winter 1999 a clear view will be available. The following pictures are available: * * The entrance of the most southern passage at Dowth. 14:51: On the left one sees stone C1 and the sunlight is touching the underside of stone C7. The sun shines through the branches * . 15.33: On the right one sees stone C15 and the sunlight is on stone C7 and touching stone C8. The sun shines through the branches , the tree on the left is the same tree on the * right in . 16:04: Sunset photographed from the top of Dowth (on the right, not really visible, is Newgrange). Ground plan of Dowth The ground plan is taken from Eogan G., 1984: The colored text is from myself. During my visit in December 1996, one could see some quartz stones (like the size at Newgrange) at the surface of the mound in a circle of some 7.5 meters from the /now blocked/ entrance. A photograph of the mound Dowth: Note from O'Kelly: note the gradual slope of the mound towards the kerb and the absence of a bank of cain slip outside it. At Newgrange one can see that it was build in many phases. A good example is: Look at the /possible/ revetment stones (green) some 7 m from the K95. Combining the above and knowing that the cairn slip at Newgrange was some 10 m, it could be that the cairn of Dowth was some 7.5 m smaller in diameter than the kerb circle. The cairn could have been covered, at least at the west side, with quartz. The strange thing though is that the entrance of the small passage was then outside the cairn! Excavation is of course needed to validate this idea. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ /Disclaimer and Copyright / Home Up Search Mail ------------------------------------------------------------------------ /Major content related changes: Jan. 22, 1999/