Wedge Tomb from Drumeague
The well-preserved Wedge Tomb of Drumeague (also known as Giants Grave ) is located near the place of the same name ( Irish Droim Éag ) on a pasture, on a low hill east of Canningstown in County Cavan in Ireland . Wedge Tombs ( German "wedge tombs" ), formerly "wedge-shaped gallery grave" called, are double-walled, seamless, mostly unarticulated megaliths of the late Neolithic and early Bronze Age Ireland.
The south-west-north-east oriented Wedge Tomb, which lacks the cap stones in particular, consists of two outer walls and a facade stone in front of the north side of the gallery. The structure sits in a hill about 9.5 m long, 7.0 m wide and 1.0 m high. The main chamber is about 5.5 m long and is closed by a large, transverse plate in the west. In front of it is a small stone on which lies an offset plate that may have formed the side of a portico . Six stones form the north side of the main chamber, five the south side. A low end stone closes the chamber. The eastern pair of stones on either side is not in alignment with the line of the other side stones and is significantly lower than this.
See also
literature
- Peter Harbison : Guide to National and Historic Monuments of Ireland . Gill and Macmillan, Dublin 1992, ISBN 0-7171-1956-4 .
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Coordinates: 53 ° 58 ′ 13.1 ″ N , 6 ° 59 ′ 5.8 ″ W.