Clogherny sea rigal
The Wedge Tomb by Clogherny Meenerrigal is a wedge tomb that is surrounded by a stone circle made of slate slabs , similar to Iceland in County Cork . It is located in Butterlope Glen near Plumbridge in County Tyrone in Northern Ireland in a circular cairn . Wedge Tombs ( German "wedge tombs" ), formerly also wedge-shaped gallery grave called, are double-walled, seamless, mostly unarticulated megalithic site of the late Neolithic and early Bronze Age and next Court cairn , Portal Tombs and Passage Tombs typical of the western half of Ireland .
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description
The Wedge Tomb has a straight facade and an overlying capstone. The gallery is segmented by posts and both ends are closed by panels. It is surrounded by a stone circle with a diameter of 18 meters, consisting of 17 stones about 90 cm high. Circles of mostly small stones, often together with rows of stones, sometimes with cairns, are not uncommon in this area. This plant is one of 22 wedge tombs in County Tyrone, which is about 5% of the total in Ireland. During the excavation carried out by Oliver Davis in 1937, a pavement was uncovered between the wedge tomb and the stone circle, and a pyre was found containing burned hazel wood, flint, an arrowhead and burned human remains. The connection between these two elements remains a mystery.
The court tomb of Balix Lower is about 100 m north on a hill.
literature
- Frances Lynch: The Court Cairn at Balix Lower, Co. Tyrone. In: Ulster Journal of Archeology. 3rd Series, Vol. 29, 1966, pp. 39-42, JSTOR 20627429 .
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Coordinates: 54 ° 47 ′ 45.6 " N , 7 ° 14 ′ 31.4" W.