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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: KnockoneillCountry: Ireland (Northern) County: Co. Derry Type: Court Tomb
Nearest Town: Garvagh Nearest Village: Swatragh
Map Ref: C819086
Discoverer Map Number: D8
Latitude: 54.918317N Longitude: 6.723549W
Condition:
5 | Perfect |
4 | Almost Perfect |
3 | Reasonable but with some damage |
2 | Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site |
1 | Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks |
0 | No data. |
-1 | Completely destroyed |
5 | Superb |
4 | Good |
3 | Ordinary |
2 | Not Good |
1 | Awful |
0 | No data. |
5 | Can be driven to, probably with disabled access |
4 | Short walk on a footpath |
3 | Requiring a bit more of a walk |
2 | A long walk |
1 | In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find |
0 | No data. |
5 | co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates |
4 | co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map |
3 | co-ordinates scaled from a bad map |
2 | co-ordinates of the nearest village |
1 | co-ordinates of the nearest town |
0 | no data |
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Court Tomb in Co. Londonderry
To the N of a by-road, up a short track and across a field, this well-preserved tomb has a forecourt 7 metres in diameter, leading into a 2-chambered gallery with a small antechamber formed by doubling the entrance-orthostats (door-jambs). The backstone of the gallery is also a wall-stone of a small subsidiary chamber which is entered from the SE kerb via a passage almost 1 metre wide. The forecourt is closed by a line of orthostats opposite the entrance, giving it the appearance of a full-court tomb. But excavation showed these to be a later feature, for the forecourt was used for Bronze Age burials, and the whole tomb was re-covered with a circular Bronze Age round cairn.
~ 2.4 km NE, in Tamnyrankin (C 836100) is an even better-preserved tomb whose 12-metre long cairn survives to a height of 2.4 metres. Behind the 2-chambered gallery a subsidiary chamber stretches across the width of the cairn. It is divided in two by a sill-stone. Some of the corbels of the gallery are still in place.
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