Ticloy
Ticloy (also called "The Stone House", Irish Tigh Cloiche , "stone house") is probably a strongly disturbed mixture between a court and a portal tomb . It is located on the southern slope of Ticloy Hill overlooking the Braid River Valley, about ten kilometers northeast of Broughshane in County Antrim in Northern Ireland . The facility is a Historic Monument . Portal Tombs are megalithic systems 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 remains of the megalithic complex consist of five stones. The small chamber, protected by two capstones, of which the western one appears shifted, measures a little over 1.4 m × 1.2 m and is 1.7 m high. A shifted slab about 1.6 m high, south of the entrance appears to be the southern half of the east-facing portal. The upright portal stone is 1.7 m high, while the side stones are 1.1 and 1.7 m and the end stone is 1.5 m high. The inside of the chamber is filled with reading stones and there are no visible traces of a stone mound .
Some stones observed outside the chamber suggest that the facility once had a flat courtyard , similar to Tirnony Dolmen in County Londonderry and Goward in County Down . This is seen by some scholars as evidence of a connection between the dolmens and the Court Tombs. However, an excavation has yet to confirm this idea.
Flanking stones
Flank stones are occasionally found in front of the portal stones on one or both sides, which indicates a simple courtyard, as some court tombs show it. Since Portal Tombs hardly show any traces of a cairn or hill more than other types , this part was probably cleared with the hill. Individual flank stones occur at Menlough and Browneshill Dolmen in County Carlow in Ireland and at Tirnony Dolmen in County Londonderry in Northern Ireland , while at Ahaglaslin , in County Cork , low stones are set in front of both sides of the portal and a funnel-shaped entrance with further stones to form. A crescent-shaped settlement of low stones was found at Ticloy.
See also
literature
- Department of the Environment for Northern Ireland: Historic Monuments of Northern Ireland. An Introduction and Guide. 6th edition, 2nd imprint. Her Majesty's Stationery Office, Belfast 1987, ISBN 0-337-08180-8 .
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Coordinates: 54 ° 56 '19.2 " N , 6 ° 4' 44.3" W.