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新庄园古爱尔兰的神秘 　　ewgrange is undoubtedly the best known megalithic monument in Ireland. Along with several other ancient monuments, it stands on a low ridge over-looking the Boyne Valley, a place famed in myth and legend. Newgrange is a chambered cairn, a 90 m diameter heap of stone and turf with a ring of 97 kerbstones around the base. The mound is roughly heart shaped and probably was originally built in the form of a truncated cone. The remains of a great circle of standing stones surround the mound. Four smaller satellite mounds, two to the east and two to the west, flank Newgrange and it ca