Portal Tomb by Cunard
The portal Tomb by Cunard ( Irish Cionn Ard ) in the southwest of Dublin in Ireland is a well-preserved portal Tomb . It is next to a stream on boggy terrain on a slope in the Dublin Mountains overlooking the River Dodder at Tallaght in County Wicklow . 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 megalithic complex, deprived of its two portal stones, is only about 1.7 m high. The diamond-shaped capstone is about 2.2 m long and rests on the side stones instead of the portal stones.
Megalithic systems in the British Isles are called Portal Tombs , in which two upright stones of the same height form the front of a chamber, which are covered with a sometimes huge capstone. Portal tombs date from the Irish Neolithic (3000 to 2000 BC) and occur in the eastern half of Ireland as well as in Cornwall and Wales .
See also
literature
- Frances M. Lynch: Megalithic Tombs and Long Barrows in Britain. Osprey 1997
- Elizabeth Shee Twohig: Irish Megalithic Tombs. Shire, Princes Risborough 1990, ISBN 0-7478-0094-4 ( Shire archeology 63).
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Coordinates: 53 ° 8 ′ 45.6 " N , 6 ° 19 ′ 48.7" W.