Baltinglass Hill
On the summit of the 382 m high Baltinglass Hill in the townland of Baltinglass ( Irish Bealach Conglais ) in County Wicklow in Ireland , near the trigonometric point , within the double-walled Iron Age fortress "Rathcoran" ( Irish Ráth Cuaráin ), Neolithic megalithic complexes , synchronized with the Passage Tomb seem to have originated from Newgrange .
Deprived of its cover and earthen many stones that have been diverted to the surrounding wall that is approximately 27.0 m measured contains round Cairn three partially overlapping, passage Tombs and two chamber tombs ( English chambered tombs ).
In the atypical, round chamber of the passage Tomb III with a short corridor, in the north of the outer stone ring, there is a large stone basin with a two-armed cross-carving inside a cartridge . Some of the capstones of the narrow corridor have been preserved.
In the southwest there is a cantilevered chamber that the excavator considers contemporary with Tomb I (and largely with Tomb II). The central chamber is surrounded by five secondary chambers. Tomb II, the corridor of which is overlaid by the inner wall, has two stones decorated with spirals . A destroyed stone box dates from the time of Tomb III.
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literature
- PT Walshe & P. O'Connor: The Excavation of a Burial Cairn on Baltinglass Hill, Co. Wicklow Text in italics In: Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy. Section C: Archeology, Celtic Studies, History, Linguistics, Literature Vol. 46, (1940/1941), pp. 221-236
- Peter Harbison : Pre-christian Ireland - From the first Settlers to the early Celts . London 1988, p. 259 ISBN 0-500-27809-1 p. 251
- Rick J. Schulting et al .: Radiocarbon Dating of a Multi-phase Passage Tomb on Baltinglass Hill, Co. Wicklow, Ireland 2017
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Coordinates: 52 ° 56 ′ 49 ″ N , 6 ° 41 ′ 0 ″ W.