Wedge Tomb from Ardnagreevagh

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Southwest side of the Wedge Tomb, which is integrated into an earth wall

The Wedge Tomb of Ardnagreevagh ( Irish Ard na gCraobhach , "height of the branches") is a wedge tomb , named after the townland of the same name . It is located in a private garden on the Renvyle Peninsula ( Rinn Mhaoile ), west of Connemara in County Galway , Ireland . Wedge Tombs ( German  "Keilgräber" , formerly also called "wedge-shaped gallery grave") are double-walled, aisle-free, mostly undivided megalithic systems from the late Neolithic and early Bronze Ages .

The small wedge grave lies in a wall that is part of a round enclosure that was created later than the megalithic complex. The west-east oriented chamber is about 2.0 meters long and 0.7 m wide and consists of two side stones and a presumed end stone, which are covered by the larger capstone.

About 1.0 km to the south lies Portal Tomb of Cloonlooaun . To the west is the Court Tomb of Tonadooravaun .

See also

literature

  • Paul Gosling: Archaeological Inventory of County Galway: Volume II: North Galway . Stationary Office, Dublin 1999, ISBN 0-7076-6179-X .
  • Elizabeth Shee Twohig: Irish Megalithic tombs . Shire, Princes Risborough 1990, ISBN 0-7478-0094-4 ( Shire archeology 63).
  • Jürgen E. Walkowitz: The megalithic syndrome. European cult sites of the Stone Age (= contributions to the prehistory and early history of Central Europe. Vol. 36). Beier & Beran, Langenweißbach 2003, ISBN 3-930036-70-3 .

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Coordinates: 53 ° 36 '22.4 "  N , 10 ° 1' 40.5"  W.