Ballyedmonduff
The Wedge Tomb of Ballyedmonduff ( Irish Baile Éamainn Duibh - also known as Giants Grave) is located on a slope of Two Rock Mountain ( Irish Binn Dá Charraig ), in a forest north of Glencullen in the south of County Dublin in Ireland . Wedge Tombs, formerly also known as "wedge-shaped gallery grave", are a type of megalithic complex from the late Neolithic and early Bronze Age that is primarily found in the western half of the island. Ballyedmonduff is one of the easternmost occurrences of its genus. It is an Irish national monument .
It has a seldom documented division into anteroom, chamber and well-preserved final chamber, which are surrounded by the largely preserved wedge-shaped edging of the mostly removed stone mound , which is double on the inside and simple on the outside . Such a constellation can also be found in Cashelbane in County Tyrone in Northern Ireland . At the southern end there is a long stone with seven bowls on the surface. This rock art is usually associated with the older Neolithic culture and is found on natural rocks ( rock carvings by Reyfad ). The stone may have come from an outcrop and was brought to the site.
The finds in the megalithic complex , excavated and restored in 1940, consisted of ceramics, corpse burns and stone tools.
There are other megaliths in the Dublin Mountains, including the portal tomb and Kilmashogue's similarly disturbed Wedge Tomb .
See also
literature
- Peter Harbison : Guide to the Naional Monuments in the Republic of Ireland Gill and Macmillan, Dublin 1992 ISBN 0-7171-1956-4 p. 70
- Séan P. Ó Ríordáin, Ruaidhrí de Valéra: Excavation of a Megalithic Tomb at Ballyedmonduff, Co. Dublin In: Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy: Archeology, Culture, History, Literature Vol. 55 (1952/1953), pp. 61– 81
Web links
- Ballyedmonduff pictures and text
- Description Engl. and picture
Coordinates: 53 ° 13 ′ 45 " N , 6 ° 13 ′ 34.3" W.