Portal Tomb by Broomfields
The collapsed Tomb portal of Broomfields is northwest of the village of Donard in County Wicklow , Ireland . As Portal Tombs v 4000-2500. Megalithic systems erected in the Neolithic BC in Ireland and Great Britain , 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.
A portal stone of the northeast-southwest oriented portal tomb is missing and the huge cap stone (3.5 m long, 2.3 m wide and 1.6 m thick) has slipped and is in front of the actual chamber. The capstone is typical of the stones in the area including Haroldstown Dolmen and Cloch a 'Phoill , both in County Carlow . Some stones have been processed in the field boundary, including the second portal stone.
The system consists of the end stone 1.9 m high and 1.8 m wide and an upright portal stone about 2.0 m high and 1.3 m wide. They formed a chamber 1.9 m long and 1.4 m wide. There are no traces of a cairn or tumulus .
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- ↑ http://webgis.archaeology.ie/historicenvironment/ Description SMR No: WI015-061 ---- Accessed on February 20, 2019
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Coordinates: 53 ° 1 ′ 41.1 ″ N , 6 ° 37 ′ 31.8 ″ W.