12O'Kelly, M.J., Claire O'Kelly, V.R. O'Sullivan, and R.H. Frith. "The Tumulus of Dowth, County Meath." Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy 83C (1983): 141-44.
All the artifacts recovered from Dowth date to its period of use in Early Christian and Norse times. The 1847-48 excavation discovered burned bones, some human, within the chamber of Dowth North. In 1970, Claire. O'Kelly found a human mandible just beneath the surface of the floor in Dowth South.