Wedge Tomb by Dunnamore
The Wedge Tomb of Dunnamore (popularly called Dermot and Grania's Bed ) is a wedge tomb located near a tributary of the Ballinderry, north of the A505 and south of Dunnamore Road in the townland of Dunnamore ( Domhnach Mór in Irish ), west of Cookstown in County Tyrone in Northern Ireland .
Wedge Tombs ( German "wedge tombs" ), formerly "wedge-shaped gallery grave" called, are seamless, mostly unarticulated megaliths of the late Neolithic and early Bronze Age and next Court- , passenger travel and Portal Tombs typical of Ireland.
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Despite a gap between the stones of the gallery, the 12.0 to 14.0 m long system is relatively complete. The gallery is about 8.0 meters long and the chamber is covered by three large ceiling panels in the rear, northern area. The mound that covered the Wedge Tomb, however, has been completely eroded. The north-south oriented gallery must have been built on a natural or artificial hill, as it is significantly higher than the surrounding land. The gallery walls, which are often no longer in situ, were constructed as at least a double row of orthostats, in some places they even seem to have been threefold.
At the front, to the south, there is a separate antechamber 2.7 m long and 1.8 m wide with a capstone and a dividing stone in the entrance, a feature of some of the wedge graves in Tyrone. There are low, loose threshold stones on either side of the dividing stone . The interior of the chamber is low, and between the side wall and the ceiling panels, several small stones support the cap stones that are higher up.
Nearby is a boulder or boulder burial and a little further away is the stone circle of Tulnacross .
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Coordinates: 54 ° 40 ′ 14.4 " N , 6 ° 56 ′ 20.5" W.