Ballybriest
The Double- Court Tomb of Ballybriest ( Irish Baile Briosc ; also called Carnanbane , Irish Carnán Bán , German "little white cairn" ) in County Londonderry in Northern Ireland , lies between Draperstown and Cookstown on the western slopes of Slieve Gallion, the Lough Fea ( Lake).
The Neolithic grounds of this rare variety are also called "Dual Court Grave". 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.
Ballybriest was axially damaged in its northern half by land reform in the 18th or 19th century. The southern half of the eastern forecourt and its double gallery as well as the southern part of the western forecourt have been preserved. The 1937 excavation exposed a black layer of burned bones mixed with broken ceramics from the Neolithic in the east forecourt . In an oval cavity in the form of a polygonal stone box that was laid out in the cairn , the corpse burn of an adult man was placed with a bell goblet as an addition.
On lower lying boggy ground, about 100 m to the southwest, there is a wedge tomb that was erected in front of the moorland of the site. The megalithic complex only partially protrudes from the moor. About two kilometers to the southwest are the stone circles and rows of stones of Corick .
literature
- Elizabeth Shee Twohig: Irish Megalithic Tombs (= Shire Archeology. 63). Shire Publications, Princes Risborough 1990, ISBN 0-7478-0094-4 .
- Colm J. Donnelly: Living Places. Archeology, Continuity and Change at Historic Monuments in Northern Ireland. The Institute of Irish Studies - The Queen's University of Belfast, Belfast 1997, ISBN 0-85389-475-2 .
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Coordinates: 54 ° 44 ′ 22 ″ N , 6 ° 49 ′ 4 ″ W.