Wedge Tomb from Cartronaglogh
The unparallel Wedge Tomb of Cartronaglogh is located in the forest on a southeast slope of Kilronan Mountain north of Keadue, east of Lough Meelagh in the townland of Cartronaglogh ( Irish Cartún na gCloch ) in the north of County Roscommon in Ireland . Wedge Tombs ( German "Keilgräber" ), formerly also called wedge-shaped gallery graves, are between 4000 and 2500 BC. In the Neolithic , double-walled, aisle-free, mostly undivided megalithic systems of the late Neolithic and the early Bronze Age were built .
The north-east-south-west oriented wedge tomb is preserved as a basic structure of a wedge-shaped chamber with antechamber. The chamber of 10 orthostats with a residual height of 0.6 to 0.3 m and a 0.75 m high, 1.7 m wide and 0.35 m thick end stone is 4.8 m long, 1.95 m at the west end and 1.95 m in the East 1.8 m wide. The antechamber at the west end measures 2.0 × 1.35 m and is separated from the chamber by a 0.3 m high threshold stone 0.7 m wide and 0.25 m thick, which only partially blocks the opening. There are no cap stones, no remnants of mounds and no remnants of the double wall.
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: 54 ° 3 ′ 48 ″ N , 8 ° 7 ′ 47 ″ W.