Ballylumford Dolmen
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The Ballylumford Dolmen (also called "Druid's Altar") consists of three bearing stones and a capstone. A stone found inside the chamber can be the lock stone. No traces of the former hill have survived, and there are no known findings.
The dolmen is a portal tomb or a gangless passage tomb of which there are two more in the region. It is located near Mill Bay in the front yard of a house on Ballylumford Road, the B90, in the townland of Ballylumford ( Irish Baile an Longfoirt ) at the northern end of the Islandmagee peninsula ( Oileán Mhic Aodha ) in County Antrim , Northern Ireland .
J. Fergusson (1808–1886) coined the term "tripod dolmen" (tripod dolmen) for this subspecies of the portal tomb . It is used on dolmens where the capstone rests on three supporting stones (e.g. Ballykeel , Legananny , Proleek ). These are not uncommon in the region.
See also
literature
- Gillian Hovell: Visiting the Past. A Guide to Finding and Understanding Britain's Archeology. History Press, Stroud 2009, ISBN 978-0-7524-4833-6 .
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Coordinates: 54 ° 50 ′ 30 " N , 5 ° 46 ′ 26" W.