Portal Tomb by Leitrim

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Portal Tomb by Leitrim

The portal Tomb of Leitrim , which has been protected since 1971 and is marked on the OSNI maps as "Druid's Altar" or "Chambered Grave", is located in the townland of the same name ( Irish Liatroim ) on the lower slopes of the Leitrim Hills, on the west side of Killeen Burn Castlederg in County Tyrone in Northern Ireland . In the British Isles, portal tombs are megalithic systems in which two upright stones of the same height form the front of the chamber and form the "door frame" in the shape of an H with the usually only half-height door stone .

The Tomb portal has a small south-west oriented chamber with the entrance in the south-west. It consists of a split capstone on a pair of well-coordinated portal stones, behind which there is a pair of side stones. The back of the chamber is visible, but filled with cairn material and reading stones . The huge square front and lower capstone part measures 2.75 × 2.75 m and has a thickness of 1.2 m at the front, which tapers to 0.5 m at the rear. There is a weathered quartz inclusion on the front of the capstone. It seems to have shifted, perhaps when the endstone collapsed. The upper part of the capstone is 1.4 m long, 1.25 m wide and 0.3 m thick. He's got a fresh breakline. The western portal stone is 1.4 m high and the eastern 1.1 m high. The directly adjacent, west-east oriented field border could contain cairn material. In 1940 two projections were mentioned on the back, and that the capstone had at least 10 bowls .

See also

literature

  • 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 .
  • Seán Ó Nualláin: Survey of the Megalithic Tombs of Ireland. Volume 5: County Sligo. Stationery Office, Dublin 1989 ISBN 0-7076-0080-4 .

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