Wedge Tomb from Tullycommon
The Wedge Tomb of Tullycommon ( Irish Tulach Chumann ) is a Wedge Tomb and National Monument about 6.4 km north of the R476 and east of Kilfenora in the Burren in County Clare in Ireland . Wedge Tombs ( German "Keilgräber" ), formerly also called "wedge-shaped gallery grave", are aisle-free, mostly undivided megalithic complexes from the late Neolithic and early Bronze Age .
The small wedge grave has a gallery that is only 1.65 m long and 0.78 m high. However, a number of stones lie behind the chamber, which are the remains of a second chamber or an antechamber.
See also
literature
- George Cunningham: Burren Journey . Ballyvaughan; reprinted in 1993
- 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 .
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- Description, image, location (English)
Coordinates: 53 ° 0 '56.4 " N , 9 ° 3' 47.2" W.