Newtown Barrow Standing Stone & Hut Site3D ModelNoAI
Bowl-Barrow (DU025-047001-), Standing Stone (DU025-047002-) & Hut Site in the townland of Newtown, parish of Kiltiernan, barony of Rathdown, in the Dublin Mountains. Situated on high ground with panoramic views of the surrounding countryside and the Dublin coastline. A bowl-barrow is a roughly hemispherical mound, of prehistoric date, comprising turf, soil, and redeposited bedrock, and covering one or more graves, or burial deposits contained within wooden or stone structures. The Newtown bowl-barrow consists of a circular round-topped mound measuring 3.2m high with a base diameter of 25m defined by an inner fosse measuring 5m wide and 0.5m deep with an external bank measuring 2.5m wide by 0.5m high. The monument is damaged on the southern side where it has been truncated by a field boundary running on an east-west axis. There is a standing stone (DU025-047002-) 6m to the north-east & a hut site to the south-west. For more information, visit: https://maps.archaeology.ie/HistoricEnvironment/?SMRS=DU025-047001-
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