Tievebulliagh
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Tievebulliagh ( Irish Taobh Builleach ) is a 402 m high hill, 4.4 km from Cushendall in the Moyle district in County Antrim , Northern Ireland . It is part of the watershed between Glenann in the north and Glenballyeamon in the south. The facility is a Scheduled Monument .
Tievebulliagh is partly formed from volcanic rock ( basalt , dolerite ), which has been transformed into porcelainite in extreme heat under unusual geological conditions . Porcelainite is an extremely hard, white rock that is also dark blue or gray due to impurities and has a low level of metamorphism. In contrast to flint , it is not brittle and therefore ideal for processing into axes . Three small outcrops of porcelain stone lie on the southeast slope of Tievebulliagh.
Archeology succeeded in proving a 3000 BC Operated Neolithic quarry at the foot of the Tievebulliagh. Axes that came from this quarry have been found in Ireland (over 7,000) and other parts of the British Isles . Tees and half-finished axes can be found around the hill and on the summit. This is where the material was extracted and prepared before it was sanded at the place of residence. The place is comparable to the places or axes of the Langdale industry in the English Lake District and the quarries at Penmaenmawr in North Wales , where a large number of stone axes come from , albeit from different materials.
The "Malone Hoard", the only Neolithic hoard in Ireland, which consists of 19 polished porcelain stone axes from Tievebulliagh or similar material from Brockley on Rathlin Island , was found at Danesfort house on Malone Road in Belfast. Some of the axes were upright in the ground. The axes are too big and heavy for practical use, so they were intended more for ceremonial purposes.
See also
literature
- Laurence Flanagan : Ancient Ireland. Life before the Celts . Gill & Macmillan, Dublin 1998, ISBN 0-7171-2433-9 .
Coordinates: 55 ° 4 ′ N , 6 ° 8 ′ W