Sess Kilgreen
The Passage Tomb by Sess Kilgreen ( Irish Seisíoch Chill Ghrianna ) is located on a farm near Ballygawley between bushes south of the road from Ballygawley to Omagh in County Tyrone in Northern Ireland .
Like Knockmany , about 6.5 km away , this megalithic complex no longer has a ceiling or a corridor. It contained bones and two pots. Outstanding and unique in Northern Ireland alongside Knockmany and Carnanmore (or East Torr ), the diamond decoration is superimposed by concentric circles on two of the stones. In the field there is a single slab about 1.5 m high, used by cattle as a friction post. This should be a relocated capstone of the plant. It is with floral motifs, concentric circles bowl ( English cups ) and spirals littered and diagonally divided by a bowl series. An oval, approximately 3.3 m long and 2.2 m wide chamber made of 13 partially very narrow bearing stones was reconstructed.
literature
- Guillaume Robin: Spatial Structures and Symbolic Systems in Irish and British Passage Tombs: the Organization of Architectural Elements, Parietal Carved Signs and Funerary Deposits. In: Cambridge Archaeological Journal. Vol. 20, No. 3, 2010, pp. 373-418, doi : 10.1017 / S0959774310000478 .
Individual evidence
- ^ Alfred EP Collins, Dudley M. Watermann: Knockmany Chambered Grave, Co. Tyrone. In: Ulster Journal of Archeology. Vol. 15, 1952, ISSN 0082-7355 , pp. 26-30, JSTOR 20566646 .
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Coordinates: 54 ° 28 '21.9 " N , 7 ° 4' 14.3" W.