Wedge Tomb by Munmahoge
The Wedge Tomb of Munmahoge is located on a heavily overgrown field border in the townland of Munmahoge ( Irish Móin Mhothóige ) near Tramore in County Waterford in Ireland . It is located at the top of the northern flank from which one the Portal Tomb of Knockeen can see.
description
It has three bearing stones on each side and an overlying capstone. There are two large stones in the earth wall that can be used as the original cap stones. The gallery is about three meters long and 0.9 meters wide.
The west-east oriented Wedge Tomb ( German "Keilgräber" ), formerly also called "wedge-shaped gallery grave", from Munmahoge is one of only two surviving Wedge Tombs in Waterford, the other is Carrickavrantry . There are currently 559 known wedge tombs in Ireland . They occur mainly in the western half of the island.
See also
literature
- Elizabeth Shee Twohig: Irish Megalithic tombs . Shire, Princes Risborough 1990, ISBN 0-7478-0094-4 ( Shire archeology 63).
- 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 and picture (English)
Coordinates: 52 ° 12 ′ 14 " N , 7 ° 9 ′ 25.8" W.