Giant's Grave (Islay)

The Giant's Grave ( Scottish Gaelic Slochd Measach ) said chamber grave ( English Chambered Cairn ) is the largest megalithic site on Islay , an island of the Inner Hebrides in Argyll and Bute in Scotland . It is located in a forest near Nereabolls (also Nerabus) on the Rhinns of Islay peninsula .

description

Giant's Grave are the remains of a northeast-southwest-oriented Clyde Tomb , of whose cairn no remains have been preserved, while most of the bearing stones and three stones of the almost straight exedra survived. Two 1.8 and 2.55 m long cap stones have slipped at some point and are in the chamber. The chamber floor, about 45 cm lower than the surrounding moorland, is usually covered by water. The chamber is around 7.8 m long and is somewhat irregular in plan due to the shifting of several stones. The walls made of large slabs are between 0.9 and 1.4 m high. The chamber is divided by panels supported by posts.

literature

• Audrey Shore Henshall: The chambered tombs of Scotland. Volume 2. Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh 1972, ISBN 0-85224-190-9 , pp. 432-433.
• Darko Maričević, Steve Mithen: Slochd Measach - The Islay Prehistory Project. In: Discovery and Excavation in Scotland. New Series, Vol. 17, 2016, pp. 32-33.

Web links

• Entry on Giant's Grave  in Canmore, Historic Environment Scotland's database
• Description Engl. and picture
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• Description Engl. Plan and pictures

Coordinates: 55 ° 43 ′ 13.8 "  N , 6 ° 26 ′ 34.6"  W.