Wedge Tomb from Cool East
The Wedge Tomb by Cool East is located in the townland of the same name Cool East ( Irish An Chúil Thoir ) north of the side road from Knightstown to Bray Head, on the slope of Geokaun Hill ( Irish An Geocán ) on Valentia Island in County Kerry in Ireland . Wedge Tombs ( German "wedge tombs" ), formerly "wedge-shaped gallery grave" called, are double-walled, seamless, mostly unarticulated megalithic of the late Neolithic and early Bronze Age .
The Wedge Tomb is covered by a huge capstone about 3.1 meters long and 2.4 meters wide. There are two lateral bearing stones in the north and south of the chamber, each about 3.0 m long. At the back of the chamber there are two more stones that serve as support for the side stones. At the front of the chamber, two upright stones form a portal.
An old burial ground with an Ogham stone about 1.9 m high with an engraved Latin cross is nearby. To the south of the street is another Ogham stone. There are several stone pillars and a dubious stone circle.
See also
literature
- Elizabeth Shee Twohig: Irish Megalithic tombs. Princes Risborough Buckinghamshire 1990, ISBN 0-7478-0094-4
- 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 .
Web links
- Wedge tomb Description engl. and pictures
- Wedge tomb picture
- Oghamstein Description Engl. and pictures
- Cool East burial ground
Coordinates: 51 ° 54 ′ 42 " N , 10 ° 21 ′ 35.7" W.