Calliagh
The heavily disturbed between 4000 and 2500 BC Built in the Neolithic BC Wedge Tomb by Calliagh ( Irish An Chailleach ) is located about 8.0 km southwest of Monaghan in County Monaghan in Ireland on a drumlin . Wedge Tombs ( German "wedge tombs" ), formerly also wedge-shaped gallery grave called, are double-walled, seamless, mostly unarticulated megaliths of the late Neolithic and early Bronze Age , and especially typical of the western half of Ireland.
Calliagh consists of large stones and has an approximately 7.5 meter long gallery with remains of double walls, especially on the south side. At the front there is an antechamber, which is separated from the main gallery by a side plate. Inside, a stone is leaning against one of the walls. It's too small to have been a capstone. However, it could be an occasional orthostat that originally caused the access to be disconnected. Some capstones have been relocated. At the front and one side of the hill, which is almost 20.0 m long and 10.0 m wide, there are two 2.0 meter high stones that could be original menhirs or relocated capstones. Upright stones at the rear of the megalithic complex could be part of the original curb.
See also
literature
- Elizabeth Shee Twohig: Irish Megalithic tombs. Shire, Princes Risborough 1990, ISBN 0-7478-0094-4 ( Shire archeology 63).
- Jürgen E. Walkowitz: The megalithic syndrome. European cult sites of the Stone Age (= contributions to the prehistory and early history of Central Europe. Vol. 36). Beier & Beran, Langenweißbach 2003, ISBN 3-930036-70-3 .
- Michael J. O'Kelly: A wedge-shaped gallery grave at Baurnadomeeny, C. Tipperary . In: Journal of the Cork Historical and Archaeological Society . 65, 2, 1960, ISSN 0010-8731 , pp. 85-115.
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Coordinates: 54 ° 11 ′ 8.6 " N , 7 ° 1 ′ 33.3" W.