Portal Tomb by Ballindud
The completely overgrown portal Tomb of Ballindud is located on a gentle western slope in the townland Ballindud ( Irish Baile an Dodaigh , "home of the morose") in the south of Waterford in County Waterford in Ireland . In the British Isles, portal tombs are megalithic systems in which two equally high, upright stones with a door stone in between form the front of the chamber, which is covered with a huge capstone.
The oval capstone, supported by a portal stone in the southwest, is about 4.3 m long, 3.8 m wide and 1.0 m thick at the maximum than the capstone on the Gaulstown dolmen . When the Tomb portal was first classified in 1824, it was supported by a second portal stone and a high end stone, but heavy vegetation prevented further investigations. Burned bones were found in the grave.
In 1986, the tomb was to the northwest, a Neolithic tee from flint found measuring 2 × 5 × 5 cm.
The menhir
200 meters north on the edge of Kilbarry Bog stands the 1.4 m high, once steeply inclined menhir of Ballindud ( English Standing Stone ). The stone fell over in 2010, but was put back in its original location in 2011. Today it is one of the few standing stones in Waterford that is protected by a wooden fence.
See also
Web links
- Description Engl. and picture
- Description Engl. and picture
- Description Engl. and picture
- Ballindud Menhir picture
Individual evidence
- ↑ Elizabeth Shee Twohig: Irish Megalithic tombs (= Shire Archeology. 63). Shire Publications, Princes Risborough 1990, 36. ISBN 0-7478-0094-4
Coordinates: 52 ° 13 '38.2 " N , 7 ° 7' 7.4" W.
