Portal Tomb by Kilkeel
The Portal Tomb of Kilkeel (also "the Crawtree Stone" called) is a non-excavated megalithic site in the north of the town Kilkeel ( Irish Cill Chaoil - "Church Caols" or "Church of the narrowness"), of the extreme south of County Down in Northern Ireland , not far from Dunnaman's Court Tomb . 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.
The megalithic complex from the Neolithic (3000 to 2000 BC) is located on a gravel path in a field boundary. The approximately two meter high and 2.5 m long Tomb portal made of granite blocks faces south. The capstone is about 2.5 m wide and 0.6 m thick. It rests on two 1.3 m high and 0.8 m wide portal stones and two tilted side stones that are about 1.5 m high and 1.2 m long; there is no end stone. The door stone is not original.
The name Crawtree Stone is unusual for a grave. The mythological term “crawtree” ( German “crow tree” ) refers to a death tree and expresses an aspect of the Irish mother goddess.
The Court Tomb of Dunnaman is west and the Court Tomb of Moyad is north of Kilkeel.
See also
Individual evidence
- ↑ https://apps.communities-ni.gov.uk/NISMR-PUBLIC/Details.aspx?MonID=9107 Description. Retrieved December 18, 2019.
literature
- Frances Lynch: Megalithic Tombs and Long Barrows in Britain (= Shire Archeology. 73). Shire Publications, Princes Risborough 1997, ISBN 0-7478-0341-2 .
- 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 ° 3 '58.6 " N , 6 ° 0' 11.1" W.