Wedge Tomb from Bealick
That between 4000 and 2500 BC Built in the Neolithic BC Wedge Tomb of Bealick ( Irish An Bhéillic ) is located on the western slope of the River Laney near a peak of the Boggeragh Mountains about 1.5 km northeast of Macroom ( Irish Maigh Chromtha ) in County Cork in Ireland . Wedge Tombs ( German "wedge tombs" ), formerly also wedge-shaped gallery graves called, are double-walled, seamless, mostly unarticulated megaliths of the late Neolithic and early Bronze Age .
The Wedge Tomb consists of a small chamber with a pear-shaped cap stone. It measures 3.65 m in length, 2.25 m in width and is 0.35 m thick in the middle. It lies on three side stones, but not on the end stone. The chamber is formed by two roughly square orthostats on the north side, a long rectangular (1.7 × 0.9 m) in the south and the approximately equal-sized end stone in the east. The gallery measures around 2.0 m in length, 1.25–1.05 m in width and is 1.15–0.8 m high. Two loose stones about 1.0 m high at the eastern end are not in situ . According to de Valera & O Nualláin, there is no evidence of the surrounding hill.
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 .
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Coordinates: 51 ° 54 ′ 44 " N , 8 ° 55 ′ 33.1" W.