Wedge Tomb from Ballyhoneen

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The Wedge Tomb of Ballyhoneen ( Irish Baile Uí Uaithnín ) is located southeast of Cloghane and south of the R560 road not far from the River Scorid ( An Scóraid ), which has its source in the Loughadoon ( Loch an Dúin ), northwest of the hamlet Sleivenagower, ( Slí an gCorr ) on the Dingle Peninsula in County Kerry 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 large Wedge Tomb is at the top of a low ridge. It consists of a narrow wedge-shaped gallery covered by two large overlapping capstones. It is about 4.0 m long, 1.5 m in the west and 1.1 m wide in the east. The end stone is missing. Two stones of the outer wall are present on the north side and one on the south side, while one stone at the west end of the gallery is the bearing stone of the upper capstone. The Wedge Tomb is partially buried in peat and the chamber is occasionally filled with water to a depth of 0.2 m. Judith Cuppage noticed in 1986 that three of the stones in the gallery had rock carvings . They consist of 12 flat bowls , two unsafe cups, a single bowl with a ring and a ring with a traversing groove.

There are three menhirs and a pair of stones nearby .

See also

literature

  • Judith Cuppage: Archaeological Survey of the Dingle Peninsula . A description of the field antiquities of the Barony of Corca Dhuibhne from the Mesolithic period to the 17th century AD = Suirbhé Seandálaíochta Chorca Dhuibhne. 1986
  • 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 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bellyhoonen Standing Stone I. Retrieved August 27, 2019 . Bellyhoonen Standing Stone II. Retrieved August 27, 2019 . Bellyhoonen Standing Stone III. Retrieved August 27, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Bellyhoonen Stone Pair. Retrieved August 27, 2019 .

Coordinates: 52 ° 12 '21.4 "  N , 10 ° 9' 16.6"  W.