Aghnaskeagh
Aghnaskeagh ( Irish Áth na Sceach , German "Weißdornfurt" ) is a townland north of Dundalk in County Louth ( Irish An Lú ) in Ireland . Almost 150 m west of the N1 (road), at a farm, is the location of a megalithic complex of the Portal Tomb type and six stone boxes, most of which were excavated in the 1930s by Emyr Estyn Evans (1905-1989). In the British Isles, portal tombs are megalithic systems in which two equally high, upright stones with a door stone in between form the front of a chamber, which is usually covered with a sometimes huge capstone.
Portal tomb
The portal Tomb of Aghnaskeagh, whose capstone is missing, is surrounded by dry stone masonry . The two 2.8 meter high portal stones and the end stone at the eastern end of the oval stone mound formed from large stones and partially preserved have been preserved .
Four cremation burials, including those of a woman and a girl, as well as late Stone Age- Early Bronze Age pottery and a glass bead were found in the complex . An early Bronze Age burial (around 1500 BC) has been preserved at the west end and a few centuries later a kiln was built next to the north end of the stone hill.
The court tomb
Only about 40.0 m to the south are four largely preserved chambers in an oval cairn remnant. The archaeologist EE Evans discovered an early Christian burial site in addition to Stone Age ceramics in the 15.0 m long and 8.0 m wide pile of stones excavated by 1935 . The chambers are comparable to those in Court Tombs , so the memorial can clearly be assigned to this class. The cairn, which is enclosed with dry stone masonry in the east and west , has four small chambers, two in the east and two in the west. The finds from the chambers, including burnt bones, consisted of Neolithic shards and flint , including two hollow scrapers.
The facilities are national monuments .
See also
literature
- Peter Harbison : Guide to the National Monuments in the Republic of Ireland . Gill & Macmillan, Dublin 1992, ISBN 0-7171-3239-0 .
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Coordinates: 54 ° 3 '39.9 " N , 6 ° 21' 28.6" W.