Wedge Tomb by Lisnadarragh
The Wedge Tomb of Lisnadarragh ( Irish Lios na Darach ) is east of the R181 road near a road, about 2 km north of Shercock in the south of County Monaghan near County Cavan in 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 . Wedge graves are a group of currently 569 sites in Ireland. They got their name after their appearance. They consist of a covered chamber that usually decreases in height and width from front to back. The grounds were originally covered by round, oval or D-shaped stone mounds .
description
Lisnadarragh is a narrow gallery, today without capstones, of which more than 20 bearing stones with a height of up to 1.8 m have been preserved. One of the cap stones lies overturned in the megalithic complex . The stones decrease in height from the southwest (access side) to the northeast.
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 .
Web links
- Brief description and pictures (last accessed on December 7, 2012)
- Description and pictures (last accessed December 7, 2012)
- Description Engl. and picture
Coordinates: 54 ° 0 '47.9 " N , 6 ° 53' 44.2" W.