Wedge Tomb from Knockcurraghbola Commons

Schematic sketch of Wedge Tomb using Iceland as an example

The Wedge Tomb of Knockcurraghbola Commons ( Irish Cnoc Corrbhuaile ) is located on a hill north of Milestone in County Tipperary in Ireland. Wedge Tombs ( German  "Keilgräber" ), formerly also called "wedge-shaped gallery grave", are aisle-less, mostly undivided megalithic buildings from the late Neolithic and early Bronze Age .

The unusually large Wedge Tomb has a gallery about 7 meters long and 1.2 meters wide, almost surpassing the longest Irish Wedge Tomb at Labbacallee in County Cork . The gallery has a preserved double facade on the south side. The facade and the end area are missing, but a door stone has been preserved. Two large capstones cover the front end of the gallery. There are six bearing stones on the north and four on the south side. There are traces of a hill around the structure.

The Wedge Tomb Baurnadomeeny is about 10.0 km WEST .

See also

• Megalithic sites in Ireland
• Knockcurraghbola Crowlands I and II

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 .

Web links

• Description Engl. and pictures
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Coordinates: 52 ° 41'59.9 "  N , 8 ° 4'25"  W.