Wedge Tomb by Carrickavrantry
That between 4000 and 2500 BC Built in the Neolithic BC Wedge Tomb of Carrickavrantry is located about 1.5 kilometers west of Tramore in the townland of Carrickavrantry ( Irish Carraig an Bhruinnteora , German "rock of the millstone maker" ) County Waterford in Ireland .
The west-east oriented Wedge Tomb ( German "Keilgrab" ), formerly called wedge-shaped gallery grave, by Carrickavrantry is one of only two surviving Wedge Tombs in County Waterford, the other is Munmahoge . There are currently 569 known wedge tombs in Ireland . They occur mainly in the western half of the island.
The grave is overgrown in the corner of a field amidst rocky landscape with a view of Carrickavrantry Lake to the west. The gallery is about 2.0 meters long and more than 1.0 meters wide with a smooth capstone on the access side. Much of the cairn that once covered this tomb has been preserved.
See also
literature
- Elizabeth Shee Twohig: Irish Megalithic tombs . Shire, Princes Risborough 1990, ISBN 0-7478-0094-4 ( Shire archeology 63).
- 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: 52 ° 9 '54.6 " N , 7 ° 11' 40.6" W.