Druid's Altar (Tyrone)
The portal Tomb Druid’s Altar (the name - also called Druids' Altar - is more common in the British Isles, e.g. Druid's Altar (Clooncoe) ) is integrated into a field boundary, on a gentle slope near Churchtown in County Tyrone in Northern Ireland . In the British Isles, portal tombs are megalithic systems in which two equally high, upright stones with a door stone in between form the front of a chamber, which is covered with a sometimes huge capstone.
The investigation showed that the chamber sides are formed by four or five orthostats lying in parallel lines. A low door stone at the southern end marks the entrance and flat stones in the north seem to mark the end. The capstone has shifted to the east, which caused the side plates there to shatter. The north of the two is said to bear the Ogham mark .
See also
literature
- James Fergusson : Rude Stone Monuments in all Countries; their Age and Uses. Murray, London 1872, ( digitized ).
- Kenneth McNally: Standing Stones and other monuments of early Ireland. Appletree, Belfast 1984, ISBN 0-86281-121-X .
- Philip I. Powell: Of Druid's Altars & Giants Graves. The Megalithic Tombs of Ireland. Createspace Independent Publishing Platform, sl 2012, ISBN 1-4699-5037-5 .
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Coordinates: 54 ° 42 '54.1 " N , 7 ° 35' 14.1" W.