Wedge Tomb from Tireighter
The Wedge Tomb of Tireighter ( Irish Tír Íochtair ) is lined with trees on a southeast slope near Park southeast of Londonderry over the River Faughan in County Londonderry in Northern Ireland . Wedge Tombs ( German "Keilgräber" ), formerly also called "wedge-shaped gallery grave", are aisle-less, mostly undivided megalithic buildings from the late Neolithic and early Bronze Age .
description
The well-preserved Wedge Tomb (only one end stone of the outer facade is missing) is oriented east-west and 7.55 m long. The width of the facade is 5.75 m and that of the straight rear front is 3.8 m. The two outer orthostats on the front are the largest at 1.5 m in height. The typical three-sided double facade has been preserved.
The entrance has two portal stones and leads into a covered antechamber full of earth and rubble , including white quartz stones . A high threshold stone leads to the 2.15 m long main chamber, each made of a side stone, on the back of which there is a shifted cap stone. The rest of the cairn can be seen near the facade and on the sides. During archaeological investigations of the area nothing of archaeological interest was found.
Another Wedge Tomb is 7.4 km away in the townland of Cashelbane .
Only about 3.6 km to the northwest is the row of stones from Clagan consisting of three stones. Two were overturned and later straightened (one crooked), the third and largest (3.6 m long) lies on the ground.
literature
- Kenneth McNally: Standing Stones and other monuments of early Ireland . Appletree, Belfast 1984, ISBN 0-86281-121-X .
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Coordinates: 54 ° 51 '47.3 " N , 7 ° 4' 43.8" W.