Wedge Tomb from Carrig
The Wedge Tomb of Carrig ( Irish An Charraig ) lies on the lower western slope of the Lugnagun overlooking the Blessington Reservoir in the north of County Wicklow in Ireland . Wedge Tombs ( German "Keilgräber" ), formerly also called "wedge-shaped gallery grave", are between 4000 and 2500 BC. In the Neolithic , double-walled, aisle-free, predominantly undivided megalithic buildings from the late Neolithic and the early Bronze Age were built .
The rectangular gallery, marked by its side stones, is about 6.0 m long and 1.0 m wide. It is flanked on both sides by the remains of an outer wall. There is a facade stone in the southeast. The curbs, especially on the north side, are essentially intact. In the southwest, the gallery has a slightly wedge-shaped antechamber 1.8 m long and 1.5 to 1.8 m wide. It is separated from the rest of the gallery by two large side posts with a row of smaller stones in between, which appear to be a threshold stone . A row of lying stones at the west end of the gallery can be shifted ceiling tiles. The oval south-west-north-east oriented cairn is 10.5 m long and 8.8 m wide.
See also
literature
- Peter Harbison : Pre-christian Ireland - From the first Settlers to the early Celts. London 1988, p. 259, ISBN 0-500-27809-1
- 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 ° 9 ′ 5.8 " N , 6 ° 30 ′ 35.7" W.