Wedge Tomb by Lisduff
The Wedge Tomb of Lisduff ( Irish An Lios Dubh , ( German "the black ring fort" )) is east of Ballindine on the R328 in County Mayo , near the border with County Galway (sometimes wrongly located there) in Ireland . Wedge Tombs ( German "wedge tombs" ), formerly "wedge-shaped gallery grave" called, are double-walled, seamless, mostly unarticulated megaliths of the late Neolithic and early Bronze Age Ireland.
The very large northeast-southwest-oriented Wedge Tomb consists of three chambers with a total length of almost 10.0 m, with seven cap stones, three at the rear in situ and side walls over the full length of the chambers. Cairn material and earth fills the interior of the chambers, making it difficult to see the division. The outer wall is most clearly visible on the east side and a large stone block lies in front of the entrance. The structure is surrounded by a cairn about 6.0 m wide and up to 1.3 m high .
See also
literature
- Peter Harbison : Guide to National and Historic Monuments of Ireland. Gill and Macmillan, Dublin 1992, ISBN 0-7171-1956-4 .
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Coordinates: 53 ° 39 ′ 51.1 ″ N , 8 ° 54 ′ 20.9 ″ W.