Wedge Tomb from Loughbrack
The Wedge Tomb of Loughbrack (like many others Dermot and Grania's Bed called) is located on a hill in Town Country Loughbrack ( Irish to log Breac ) near the village Kilcommon ( Irish Cill Chuimín ) east of Rear Cross (also Rearcross) in the County Tipperary 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 .
Loughbrack's collapsed Wedge Tomb is in pretty bad shape, but most of the large orthostats are still in place. The wedge tomb is about 8.0 m long and 3.5 m wide. The stones are less than 1.0 m high. The gallery is 6.0 m long including the approximately 1.0 m deep and 2.0 m wide antechamber. The width tapers to about 1.6 m at the end of the main chamber. The double-walled masonry can still be seen on the south side and the 3.0 m long end stone is still in situ . A broken ceiling panel lies inside the chamber.
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: 52 ° 41 ′ 3.6 ″ N , 8 ° 8 ′ 16.4 ″ W.