There are no doubts concerning the rayed object from the star map as it is definatly duplicated on the ground in the shape of a man-made Moat.
In the course of my research I found out about the goddess Bera's Quatrain and the speckled rock summit of the small Peak.I have included them here knowing there are instruments out there that can prove if any of the Peaks at Loughcrew are man-made.
What I had set out to do originally was to prove that a design on an ancient stone was a group of stars .I also identified three of the stars from the group as the three Belt Stars from the constellation of Orion.I also discovered that the Peaks of Loughcrew duplicated the group of stars on the old stone.
The rules that I laid out were that any site I investigated would have to be at least 5,000 years old. The site would also have to be a Passage Grave cemetery with at least four large monuments.The reason I am settling for only four monuments to duplicate the stone star map is the fact all the places would not have included the rayed object as a monument.The reason for this was that the rayed object was probably moving away rapidly from the other objects.
Passage Grave cemetaries are very scarce places to find,the example being the fact that there are none in England,Wales and Scotland.
The first place I decided to investigate with the old map was the Boyne Valley monuments .Those monuments are three large Tumuli named Knowth,Dowth and of course the most famous one Newgrange.
My reason for choosing to investigate the Boyne Valley was because it had so much in common with Loughcrew.Some of the things they had in common were that they were both Passage Grave cemetaries. They both had the same Passage tombs and Passage Grave Art and they were also in the same County of Meath.
They had three further similarities ,the first was that the monuments at both sites extended for three miles ,the second was that they extended in a Northeast to Southwest direction.Finally the monuments at both sites are positioned on ridges.
One site map showing the positions of the Boyne Valley monuments would be more instructive than thousands of my discriptive words ,so just below is the site map.
Sited at the Westerly end of this ridge is the large mound named Dowth.The only other significant monument occupying this long ridge is a very large enclosure which is sited on the Easterly start of the ridge.Looking at the site map you will notice that the enclosure is just inside the boundary start of the ridge.I am going to treat this enclosure as if it was a large mound which I believe it was before it was emptied for agriculture and road building a long time ago.I will come back to this enclosure later and present some evidence that it had been a large mound once upon a time .
Treating the enclosure as a large mound I decided to run a red reference line through the centre of the enclosure and on through the centre of the large Dowth mound.
In order to give a certain pattern to the group of monuments I continued the red line through to the end of the most Westerly monument.
Below the red line and not and not as far West as Knowth is the famous monument named Newgrange.This monument is positioned on a small knoll roughly 50 feet above the local landscape and coloured green .
This mound completes the site map.
