Tawnatruffaun
The Portal Tomb by Tawnatruffaun (also Tawnatruffan or the Giant's Griddle - German "the baking sheet of the giants" ) is a relatively well-preserved Portal Tomb . It is located in the townland Tawnatruffaun (also Tawnatruffan ; Irish Tamhnaigh an tSrutháin ; German "field of the brook" ) near the Owenykeevan (river) in the foothills of the Ox Mountains on a modern stone wall (which serves as a field or protection boundary) south of Dromore West in County Sligo 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 2.8 m long capstone, which is almost flat on the top, is the hallmark of the facility. It rests almost horizontally on the portal stones and the end stone. The chamber lacks a side stone, all the rest, including the two 1.5 m high portal stones and the half-height door stone, are present. A shell stone that was placed in a field wall and the remains of a second system are nearby. To the west, near the Owenykeevan River, are the Great and Small Griddles of the Fiana , two destroyed gallery graves and another Giant's Griddle.
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 V: County Sligo 1989 ISBN 0-7076-0080-4
Web links
- Description in English and pictures (last accessed on December 10, 2012)
- Description in English and pictures (last accessed on July 17, 2016)
Coordinates: 54 ° 11 ′ 50.5 ″ N , 8 ° 55 ′ 9.9 ″ W.