Wedge Tomb by Gortakeeran
The Wedge Tomb of Gortakeeran is located on a ridge in the townland of Gortakeeran, ( Irish Gort an Chaorthainn , "field of mountain ash") north of the Owenboy River ( An Abhainn Bhuí , "yellow river") about 2.5 km west of Coolaney to the east Slopes of the Ox Mountains in County Sligo in Ireland .
Wedge Tombs ( German "wedge tombs" ), formerly also wedge-shaped gallery graves called, are double-walled, seamless, mostly unarticulated megaliths of the late Neolithic and early Bronze Age .
The almost intact, northeast-southwest-oriented Wedge Tomb is marked on the OS maps as the "Giant's Grave" and consists of a well-preserved gallery of around 14.0 m outer length, which is flanked on both sides by the remains of the outer walls. It opens to a flat facade in the west, where the front of the monument is integrated into a field boundary. The gallery is divided by a side pillar into an antechamber 1.6 m long and 1.4 m wide and the main chamber about 7.0 m long, about 1.7 m wide at the front and tapering down to 1.0 m towards the end stone , divided. The main chamber has eight side stones on the north side and six on the south side and decreases in height from west to east. One capstone covers the antechamber and another the back. Three cap stones are missing between them, which are next to the gallery. Three outer wall stones on the north side border the northern facade stone. A single wall stone stands on the south side, about a meter behind the front of the chamber. The field border probably contains the remains of the cairn .
Nearby are the Ringfort and the Wedge Tomb of Cabragh .
See also
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 .
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Coordinates: 54 ° 10 ′ 21.6 ″ N , 8 ° 39 ′ 4.8 ″ W.