Wedge Tomb from Greenwood
The northeast-southwest oriented Wedge Tomb of Greenwood , marked on the OS map as "Dermot & Grania's Bed", is located in the townland of the same name ( Irish An Choillidh Liath ) opposite a row of houses north of Bekan Lough, west of Ballyhaunis , ( Irish Béal Átha hAmhnais ), on the R323 road in County Mayo , 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 .
The approximately 5.0 m long gallery is lined on both sides with four upright orthostats , which lead to the 2.3 m long and 0.8 m wide chamber, which is from a single 1.7 m long and 1.45 m wide chamber and 0.3 m thick capstone is covered. The end stone is in situ . The entrance to the grave is marked by a single upright facade stone in the south.
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: 53 ° 46 ′ 8.4 " N , 8 ° 50 ′ 51.8" W.