Portal Tomb by Ballygraffan
The portal Tomb by Ballygraffan is located in the townland of the same name ( Irish Baile Mhic Creamhthainn ) right next to a road, east of Ballygraffan Road, southeast of Comber in County Down in Northern 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 a chamber, which is covered with a sometimes huge capstone.
Ballygraffan is a collapsed portal tomb . Its approximately 1.0 m thick capstone lies on a pile of large stones. It has not been excavated and is surrounded by a roughly piled dry stone wall, overgrown and neglected. The northern edge of the structure lies on top of a rock outcrop . There is a lot of stone material, but some of it may not be original. On the southern edge there are four large, closely spaced boulders that can belong to an exedra .
The Kempe Stones are nearby .
See also
literature
- Elizabeth Shee Twohig: Irish Megalithic Tombs (= Shire Archeology. 63). Shire Publications, Princes Risborough 1990, ISBN 0-7478-0094-4 .
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Coordinates: 54 ° 31 '54.1 " N , 5 ° 43' 30.5" W.