Wedge Tomb by Carrownlisheen
The Carrownlisheen Wedge Tomb (also known locally as "Leaba Dhiarmada is Ghrainne") is located on the Aran Island of Inishmaan in County Galway 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, mostly undivided megalithic buildings from the late Neolithic and early Bronze Age .
The east-west oriented chamber is about 3.5 m long and is delimited by large side stones that lie vertically under the large capstone. Outer ramparts lie on the north and south sides of the chamber. An upright stone in the west may have formed part of the entrance. Traces of the cairn , which was built on bare flat limestone , have been preserved.
See also
literature
- Archaeological Inventory of County Galway. Volume 1: Paul Gosling: West Galway (including Connemara and the Aran Islands). Stationery Office, Dublin 1993, ISBN 0-7076-0322-6 .
- Peter Harbison : Guide to National and Historic Monuments of Ireland . Gill and Macmillan, Dublin 1992, ISBN 0-7171-1956-4 .
Web links
- Tomb Stone Circles & Standing Stones Description Engl. - the picture wrongly shows the Keel East plant
Coordinates: 53 ° 5 ′ 14.9 " N , 9 ° 34 ′ 51.7" W.