Wedge Tomb from Kilcrimple
The Wedge Tomb of Kilcrimple ( Irish Cill Chruimthir ) is a heavily overgrown massive wedge tomb southeast of Gort and east of Ballyturin Lough on a small hill south of the R353 road in County Galway in Ireland . Wedge Tombs ( German "Keilgräber" ), formerly also called "wedge-shaped gallery grave", are aisle-free, mostly undivided megalithic buildings from the late Neolithic and early Bronze Age .
It is a wedge-shaped box that is slightly lower and narrower in the east than in the west. It has a single, about 3.4 m long, 1.8 m wide and 60 cm thick capstone and one about one meter high and 45 cm thick side stone on one side and two on the other. The front plate and the material of the cairn are missing. The total length is about 3.2 m and is about 50 cm longer on the eastern than on the western.
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 .
- Elizabeth Shee Twohig: Irish Megalithic Tombs . Shire, Princes Risborough 1990, ISBN 0-7478-0094-4 ( Shire archeology 63).
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Coordinates: 53 ° 2 ′ 57.5 " N , 8 ° 44 ′ 32.8" W.