Wedge Tomb from Coolbuck
The Wedge Tomb of Coolbuck (locally called Druid's Altar or Giant's Grave ) is located on the slopes of the 245 m high Cloghtogle Hills ( Irish Cloch Thógála dt. Raised stone, dolmen ) in the townland of Coolbuck ( Irish Cúil Bhoc ) northeast of Lisbellaw in County Fermanagh in Northern 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 .
It consists of a wedge-shaped cairn around 15.0 m long and around 8.0 m wide at the western end , which contains the well-preserved remains of a 7.7 m long, west-east oriented gallery 1.7 m wide. The system consists of sandstone slabs varying in height from 0.35 to 0.83 m and the large, overlying capstone. From the outer wall only a single approximately 0.7 m high orthostat is preserved in the south.
The Coolbuck menhir is about 200 m to the northwest, across the street. The Coolbuck cairn is in the next field, about 50 m to the east.
See also
literature
- Elizabeth Shee Twohig: Irish Megalithic Tombs (= Shire Archeology. 63). Shire Publications, Princes Risborough 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 .
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Coordinates: 54 ° 20 ′ 34 " N , 7 ° 31 ′ 23.9" W.