neolithic art

ABOVE The magnificent megalithic tomb at Newgrange.

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Clare Tuffy and Newgrange

I would restore the great chambers of Boyne, prepare a sepulchre under the cupmarked stones. Seamus Heaney, ‘Funeral Rites’

ABOVE The Burton Agnes drum is a barrel shaped chalk cylinder covered with intricately carved motifs, which may have acted as a protective talisman for the prehistoric children with whom it was buried.

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Rare chalk sculpture found in Britain

Radiocarbon dating of a bone from the Burton Agnes burial suggests that all of these objects were created approximately 500 years earlier, c.3000 BC.

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Neolithic artistry from the Stonehenge landscape

Cutting-edge photographic techniques have shed illuminating light on a series of carved chalk plaques excavated close to Stonehenge. What have they revealed about artistic endeavour in Neolithic Britain? CA explores a new study by Bob Davis, Phil Harding, and Matt Leivers.