East Bennan

Ideal Clyde Tombs - East Bennan corresponds roughly to the illustration below

The remains of the Clyde Tombs of East Bennan lie in an elongated, horned cairn in a field near the south coast of the Isle of Arran in North Ayrshire in Scotland . Megalithic systems of this type are found in south-west Scotland, particularly in the Clyde Valley . They were usually made around 3300 BC. And usually have concave courtyards with facades of orthostats and a linear arrangement of the chambers in the hill.

The cairn has been reduced, but the stones of the chamber and the semicircular forecourt are clearly visible. In the long cairn, the plan of which John Alexander Balfour published in 1910 in "The book of Arran", two secondary chambers have been created. The approximately 6.7 m long main gallery was divided into five chambers using upright side stones. The two portal stones in the center are only about 0.15 m apart, so it is possible that they could be a late addition to block access.

The Cairns of “Baile Meadhonach” in the north and Torrylin in the west are roughly the same distance away .

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 (= Jysk Arkaeologisk Selskabs skrifter. 11). Gyldendalske Boghandel (in comm.), Copenhagen 1973, ISBN 87-00-08861-7 , pp. 117–128.
Jörg Lindenbeck: Investigations into late Neolithic and Early Bronze Age grave forms in south-west Scotland. In: Archaeological Information . Vol. 11, No. 2, 1988, pp. 228-232.
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 .

Individual evidence

^ Tim Darvill: Clyde - Carlingford Culture. In: Tim Darvill: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Archeology. 2nd edition. Oxford University Press, Oxford et al. 2008, ISBN 978-0-19-953404-3 .
↑ A name that is more common in Scotland and Ireland.

Web links

Entry on East Bennan in Canmore, Historic Environment Scotland database
Description Engl. and picture

55.439448 -5.173403Coordinates: 55 ° 26 '22 " N , 5 ° 10' 24.3" W.

[1] Tim Darvill: Clyde - Carlingford Culture. In: Tim Darvill: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Archeology. 2nd edition. Oxford University Press, Oxford et al. 2008, ISBN 978-0-19-953404-3 .

[2] A name that is more common in Scotland and Ireland.