Portal Tomb by Carrickclevan
That between 4000 and 2500 BC Portal Tomb by Carrickclevan (also Carrickclevin , Irish Carraig an Chliabhain - German "the rock of the cradle" ) was built in the Neolithic Age in a valley south of Cornafean, 100 m from the River Erne in the southwest of County Cavan 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 a chamber, which is covered with a sometimes huge capstone.
The approximately 2.0 m long chamber is integrated into a field boundary. The entrance is on the east side and consists of two approximately 1.1 m high portal stones on both sides of a low door stone. The sides consist of two blocks about 1 m high, the southern one is inclined inwards. No end stone is visible. The capstone is broken into two parts, the larger part still covers the chamber.
Nearby is the Aghawee Tomb Portal
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 ° 54'52.6 " N , 7 ° 28'16.3" W.