Ballaharra Stones
The Ballaharra Stones were discovered on the Isle of Man in 1971 during the expansion of a sand pit. An excavation was carried out by the local archaeologist Sheila Cregeen ( location ).
The severely disturbed two-chamber tomb with deposits of corpse fire dates from 2300 BC. BC and dates from the same Neolithic period as King Orry's Grave and Cashtal yn Ard . Ballaharra's pottery shows a decoration similar to that found on Mull Hill .
The above-ground part of the complex consisted of six large menhirs . Two of the stones had been destroyed. The four remaining were donated by the owners of the Ballaharra sand pit to the German Parish, who had the stones set up in St. John's near Tynwald Hill without attempting to reconstruct them. Restoration location: 54 ° 12 ′ 9.7 ″ N , 4 ° 38 ′ 25.5 ″ W.
literature
- Vicki Cummings, Chris Fowler (Eds.): The Neolithic of the Irish Sea. Materiality and Traditions of Practice. Oxbow Books, Oxford 2004, ISBN 1-84217-109-7 , pp. 91-95, ( online version (Googlebooks) ).
- Stephen Burrow: The Neolithic Culture of the Isle of Man: A Study of the Sites and Pottery (British Archaeological Reports (BAR) British) Archeeopress 1998 ISBN 0860548724
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