Cashtal yn Ard
Coordinates: 54 ° 16 ′ 31.6 " N , 4 ° 21 ′ 47.7" W.
Cashtal yn Ard (also Cashtel yn Ard - German Castle on the Heights ) is one of the best preserved prehistoric monuments on the Isle of Man and the British Isles . Cashtal yn Ard is located in Maughold parish, in the northeast of the island, on a hill between Glenmona and Cornaa. It was excavated in the 1930s and 1999. A note from 1795 mentions the memorial “Cashtal y mucklagh y vagileragh” (the castle of the field pig sty).
- Cashtal yn Ard
clearly recognizable is the tip-like design of one of the main stones of the exedra
Scheme by Clyde Tombs
Cashtel yn Ard
It is one of a handful of Neolithic megalithic type Clyde Tomb on the island, which is about v to 3000th To be dated. The over 100 m long monument is oriented roughly west-east and one of the largest of its type. It was originally a 16 by 13 m wide conical stone mound with a deeply recessed paved facade that forms a horseshoe-shaped forecourt about nine by six meters, as is more typical of Court Tombs . Behind it, lying in a line, there are five large chambers (approx. 3.0 m × 1.8 m), which can be reached through the approximately 50 cm wide entrance. Some of the granite stones that are up to three meters high and delimit the forecourt and those that surround the complex, including those made of white quartz , have been preserved in situ . The stones on either side of the entrance are particularly impressive. The system is two-phase, because its rear part is designed significantly different. In the middle, lying on the axis, there is an oval zone (burnt area) with burnt material.
Nearby is the Tholtan Cashtal yn Ard, the ruin of an abandoned and derelict, roofless old farmhouse.
literature
- S. Harrison: 100 Years of Heritage, Manx National Heritage. Manx Museum and National Trust, Douglas 1986, ISBN 0-948308-04-4 .
- Frances Lynch: Megalithic Tombs and Long Barrows in Britain . Shire, Princes Risborough 1997, ISBN 0-7478-0341-2 p. 39 ( Shire archeology 73).