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Newgrange – a view from the platform

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Gabriel Cooney
Gabriel Cooney*
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*UCD School of Archaeology, University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin 4, Ireland (Email: gabriel.cooney@ucd.ie)
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Antiquity , Volume 80 , Issue 309 , 1 September 2006 , pp. 697 - 708
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