Wedge Tomb by Scrahanard
The Wedge Tomb by Scrahanard is located in the townland of the same name ( Irish An Screathan Ard , German "the high scree slope") on a small platform, on the slope overlooking the River Laney, northwest of Macroom in County Cork in Ireland . Lackadov's Wedge Tomb is about 20 m south. A menhir is 10.0 m west and a cairn 35.0 m north. 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 .
The massive capstone of 2.4 × 2.1 m rests on two delicate lateral supporting stones in the north (1.0 × 0.1 × 0.5 m and 0.85 × 0.2 m × 0.7 m) and two the same in the south (0.95 × 0.2 m × 0.5 m and 0.45 × 0.1 × 0.3 m). The end stone is 0.95 m high, 1.7 m wide and 0.3 m thick. Two stones of the outer wall and a possible supporting stone are on the north side. The surrounding cairn is integrated into a field border in the west.
There are decorations on the inside of the back wall and on the side stone next to it. The age and nature of these traits are uncertain, but they likely date back to the last century.
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: 51 ° 57 ′ 31.2 " N , 8 ° 59 ′ 47.7" W.