Wedge Tomb from Ballaghaglash
The Wedge Tomb of Ballaghaglash is located in the townland Ballaghaglash ( Irish Bealach an Ghlais ) near the Burren National Park and the border with County Galway in the east of the Burren in County Clare in Ireland . Wedge Tombs ( German "wedge tombs" ), formerly "wedge-shaped gallery grave" called, are double-walled, seamless, mostly unarticulated megalithic of the late Neolithic and early Bronze Age .
The special thing about the largely destroyed Wedge Tomb is the soul hole with a diameter of 60 cm in a side stone of the chamber. Next to it was a matching round lock stone. Soul holes are very rare in Irish megalithic sites and in no other case can be found in side stones. While some bungstones have survived in French installations, this is - if it's genuine - the only locking stone in Ireland. You can see how the limestone side plates were wedged into the wall.
About 8.5 km to the northeast is the Portal Tomb of Crannagh , County Galway .
See also
literature
- Phillip Powell: Megalithic Monuments of Ireland County Guide Series - Galway 2011 ISBN 1463538057
- Carleton Jones, Temples of Stone. Exploring the megalithic tombs of Ireland. Collins Press, Doughcloyne 2007
- 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 .
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Coordinates: 53 ° 2 ′ 33.8 " N , 8 ° 56 ′ 8.4" W.