This is a decorated stone dating to the Neolithic, located in Satellite Tomb 14 of the Megalithic complex at Knowth, Co. Meath, Ireland (ME019-030014-). It has extensive carving on the main face and on the back face, and it has the greatest concentration of different motifs of any stone at Knowth. Some motifs are incised but most are picked using a sharp implement, possibly flint or quartz. The inner face is covered with a range of motifs, which frequently overlap each other. There are examples of multiple and gapped circles, spirals, arcs, cupmarks, serpentiforms, chevrons, zigzags and area-picked triangles. There are a large number of dispersed pickmarks over all the stone.
Royal Irish Academy. Excavations at Knowth vol. 7: The megalithic art of the passage tombs at Knowth, County Meath. Digital Repository of Ireland (2023). Royal Irish Academy.
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