An early image of Newgrange #before #excavations and restorations (destruction). #Photograph by William A. Green.

The #first #drawing of #Newgrange by Edward Lhuyd, #1699, showing the mound to be a huge truncated cone of stone with a #standing #stone at the #summit.

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