Entrance Grave from Harristown
The Entrance Grave of Harristown ( Irish Baile Anraí ) is on the east side of a hill known as "Carrick a Dhirra", about 3.9 km from Dunmore East in County Waterford in Ireland . The so-called "Simple Passage Tomb " is the most impressive megalithic complex of a group of only five Entrance Graves in Ireland, which have a great affinity with the complexes mostly found on the Isles of Scilly off the coast of Cornwall .
description
The slightly wedge-shaped chamber is more than six meters long and the partial doubling of its side walls shows the influence of the wedge tombs . The rear wall of the chamber is 1.3 m wide and is closed off by a large plate. Only two capstones remain, one above the chamber and the other near the 1.05 m wide beginning of the chamber above a low threshold stone . The chamber is surrounded by the remains of a round stone mound that is about ten meters in diameter and is still almost completely surrounded by curb stones.
The facility was excavated in 1939 by the British archaeologist Jacquetta Hawkes (1910–1996), who found a bronze shield, vessels, bone needles, a razor and a stone pendant in addition to the corpse burn of two people in the chamber. The Hawkes excavation also revealed a number of secondary graves from the Bronze Age .
See also
literature
- Elizabeth Shee Twohig: Irish Megalithic tombs . Shire, Princes Risborough 1990, ISBN 0-7478-0094-4 ( Shire archeology 63).
Web links
- Description Engl. and pictures (last accessed on December 10, 2012)
- Description and plan engl. (last accessed on December 10, 2012)
Coordinates: 52 ° 11 ′ 1.6 ″ N , 7 ° 0 ′ 41.5 ″ W.