Passage Tomb by Cross
The Passage Tomb of Cross is located on a hill in Townland Cross near Cushendun in County Antrim in Northern Ireland .
The Passage Tomb lies in the remains of a round hill about 15 m in diameter, of which some curbs have been preserved. A corridor about one meter long, facing north, leads to an oval chamber, half-filled with rubble, a little more than 1 m wide and 1.5 m long and with five preserved granite stones . The corridor was probably longer originally - there are a few slightly shifted stones in front of it. It is interesting that the corridor is oriented towards the easternmost point of Rathlin Island . A large slab next to the megalithic complex is probably a relocated capstone of the chamber.
Cross is a Scheduled Monument . Nearby are Altagore Cashel and West Torr's Passage Tomb .
literature
- Rodney Castleden: The Stonehenge People. An Exploration of Life in Neolithic Britain 4700-2000 BC. Routledge, London et al. 1998, ISBN 0-415-04065-5 .
- Elizabeth Shee Twohig: Irish Megalithic Tombs (= Shire Archeology. 63). Shire Publications, Princes Risborough 1990, ISBN 0-7478-0094-4 .
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Coordinates: 55 ° 13 '14.9 " N , 6 ° 9' 33.7" W.