Portal Tomb by Aghawee
The Aghawee Tomb portal (also called Giant's Grave ) is located about 400 m south of the River Erne , north of Kilnaleck in the south of County Cavan in Ireland . As portal Tombs be megalithic on the British Isles referred to in which two equally high upright stones therebetween with a door stone which form the front of a chamber which is covered with a massive part endstone.
The small, east-west oriented portal Tomb has a slightly trapezoidal chamber 2.2 m long and 1.4 m wide. It narrows backwards. The entrance is formed by two portal stones that are 0.4 m apart and about 1.6 m high. The sides are formed by stones that slightly overlap the portal stones. Both side stones are about 1.2 m high and the inwardly sloping broken end stone is 0.7 m high. The also broken capstone lies on the portal stones and the end stone. There are traces of a cairn to the west of the chamber.
Nearby are the Portal Tombs of Carrickacroy and Carrickclevan .
See also
literature
- Seán P. Ó Ríardáin: Antiquities of the Irish countryside. Ruaidhrí de Valera (Ed.) 1979 p. 104.
- 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 .
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Coordinates: 53 ° 53 '0.7 " N , 7 ° 20' 13.7" W.