Wedge Tomb from Dunteige
The Wedge Tomb of Dunteige ( Irish Dún Taidhg ) is a typical wedge grave about 10.0 m long. It is located at Ballygalley in County Antrim in Northern Ireland .
Wedge Tombs ( German "Keilgräber" ), formerly also called "wedge-shaped gallery grave" are double-walled, aisle-free, mostly undivided megalithic systems from the late Neolithic and early Bronze Age and, alongside court , passage and portal tombs, typical for Ireland, but atypical for the northeast of the Ulster Province .
The Wedge Tomb from Dunteige is located in a northwest-southeast oriented oval cairn . Two chambers form a gallery that is about the total length of the stone hill. The antechamber is formed by two bearing stones and a high dividing stone. Behind it is the long main chamber with five supporting stones on each side. A fall has fallen on the dividing stone. The outer wall is better preserved on the north side, where ten substantial boulders are adjacent to each other. Six stones are visible on the south side.
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 .
- Elizabeth Shee Twohig: Irish Megalithic Tombs (= Shire Archeology. 63). Shire Publications, Princes Risborough 1990, ISBN 0-7478-0094-4 .
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Coordinates: 54 ° 54'7 " N , 5 ° 56'15.3" W.