Balix Lower
The Court Tomb of Balix Lower is located between Altishane and Plumbridge in County Tyrone in Northern Ireland . Court Tombs are among the megalithic chamber tombs ( English chambered tombs ) of the British Isles . With around 400 specimens, they are found almost exclusively in Ulster in the north of Ireland or in Northern Ireland.
Balix Lower (also known as “the white rocks”) has a V-shaped forecourt that leads into a gallery with what used to be probably two chambers, which ends with a pointed end stone. Along with Ballyganner North, Parknabinnia , Shanballyedmond and Teergonean, the facility is one of the atypical court tombs in County Clare , but its use at the same time as the other court tombs in Ireland between 3700 and 3570 BC. Seems to have started.
The Court Tomb is also out of the ordinary because of the transition to the gallery entrance. The north arm of the forecourt border leads to a threshold stone , the south arm to the center of the southern entry post.
About 100 meters south is the Wedge Tomb of Clogherny Meenerrigal .
See also
literature
- Frances Lynch: The Court Cairn at Balix Lower, Co. Tyrone. In: Ulster Journal of Archeology. 3rd Series, Vol. 29, 1966, pp. 39-42, JSTOR 20627429 .
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Coordinates: 54 ° 47 ′ 48.8 " N , 7 ° 14 ′ 31.3" W.