Clyde Tomb from Cragabus

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Clyde Tomb from Cragabus
Clyde Tomb from Cragabus

The disturbed Clyde Tomb of Cragabus is located on the west side of Creag Mhor, a small hill on the C17 road west of Port Ellen on the Inner Hebridean island of Islay in Scotland .

The terrain is grassy and there are no remains of a cairn . The conspicuous standing stone of the Clyde Tomb about three meters east of the chamber is about 2.1 m high. Excavations revealed a total height of 3.5 m. A comparison with older measurements from 1901 shows that the soil has risen considerably since then. The stone must be viewed as the remainder of a pair of portal stones, which means that it was originally a 7.8 m long chamber divided by transverse plates with three or four areas. The chamber obtained is 4.9 m long and 1.0 to 1.1 m wide. The fans Bryce excavated were found to be "filled with stones and dark mold". Human bones were "in great disarray, though mostly grouped in the corners and sides of the cisterns". The artifacts include goblets and other shards, flint chips, and pebbles. There were also animal bones in the center of the chamber, including those of an ox and a pig or sheep . The pottery and flints are now in the National Museum of Antiquities of Scotland.

literature

  • Jack G. Scott: The Clyde Cairns of Scotland . In: Glyn Daniel, Poul Kjærum (Ed.): Megalithic graves and ritual . Papers presented at the III Atlantic Colloquium, Moesgård 1969. Gyldendalske Boghandel, Copenhagen 1973, ISBN 87-00-08861-7 , pp. 117–128.
  • Jack G. Scott: Clyde, Carlingford and Connaught Cairns. A review. In: Antiquity. Vol. 36, No. 142, 1962 ISSN  0003-598X , pp. 97-101, doi : 10.1017 / S0003598X00029707 .
  • 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 .

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Coordinates: 55 ° 37 '36 "  N , 6 ° 14' 39.4"  W.