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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: The Broad Stone (Craigs) Alternative Name: Craigs Dolmen, Broadstone
Country: Ireland (Northern) County: Co. Antrim Type: Court Tomb
Nearest Town: Ballymoney  Nearest Village: Dunloy
Map Ref: C978175
Discoverer Map Number: D8
Latitude: 54.995377N  Longitude: 6.472655W
Condition:
5Perfect
4Almost Perfect
3Reasonable but with some damage
2Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
0No data.
-1Completely destroyed
 3 Ambience:
5Superb
4Good
3Ordinary
2Not Good
1Awful
0No data.
 3 Access:
5Can be driven to, probably with disabled access
4Short walk on a footpath
3Requiring a bit more of a walk
2A long walk
1In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find
0No data.
 3 Accuracy:
5co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates
4co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map
3co-ordinates scaled from a bad map
2co-ordinates of the nearest village
1co-ordinates of the nearest town
0no data
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Craigs (Co. Antrim)
Craigs (Co. Antrim) submitted by durhamnature : Old drawing from archive.org (Vote or comment on this photo)
Court Tomb in Co. Antrim

At a height of 200m on Long Mountain,this reconstructed tomb has a large capstone over the entrance and first chamber of the gallery – probably not the original. The almost semicircular forecourt faces SE. It was once a popular place of assembly.

800 metres SW on the other side of the road is the Craigs Lower Passage Grave - a small denuded passage-tomb, whose seven close, tall uprights support a flat roofstone some 2 by 1.6 metres. Two fallen stones by the opening on the SW side may be remains of a short passage. See the separate page on Meg Portal for that site too.
~ 4.4 km ENE is the fine court-tomb at Ballymacaldrack.
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The Broad Stone (Craigs)
The Broad Stone (Craigs) submitted by Ptarmigan : Broadstone at Craigs (Vote or comment on this photo)

The Broad Stone (Craigs)
The Broad Stone (Craigs) submitted by Ptarmigan : Broadstone at Craigs, with ugly Wind Turbines nearby, which spoil the atmosphere of this site. (Vote or comment on this photo)

The Broad Stone (Craigs)
The Broad Stone (Craigs) submitted by Ptarmigan : Broadstone at Craigs (Vote or comment on this photo)

The Broad Stone (Craigs)
The Broad Stone (Craigs) submitted by Ptarmigan (Vote or comment on this photo)

The Broad Stone (Craigs)
The Broad Stone (Craigs) submitted by Ptarmigan (Vote or comment on this photo)

The Broad Stone (Craigs)
The Broad Stone (Craigs) submitted by Ptarmigan

The Broad Stone (Craigs)
The Broad Stone (Craigs) submitted by Ptarmigan

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 460m WSW 242° Craigs Lower Passage Grave* Passage Grave (C9739617278)
 608m NNW 342° Craigs Standing Stone 1* Standing Stone (Menhir) (NW139765)
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 8.9km W 265° Moneydig* Passage Grave
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 15.3km E 97° Lisnamanny Standing Stone* Standing Stone (Menhir) (D1305015860)
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The Broadstone Poem by Andy B on Saturday, 27 January 2018
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The Broad Stone is the subject of a poem by the Californian poet Robinson Jeffers:

The Broadstone

NEAR FINVOY, COUNTY ANTRIM
We climbed by the old quarries to the wide highland of heath,
On the slope of a swale a giant dolmen,
Three heavy basalt pillars upholding the enormous skb,
Towers and abides as if time were nothing.
The hard stones are hardly dusted with lichen in nobody knows
What ages of autumns in this high solitude
Since a recordless tribe of an unknown race lifted them up
To be the availing hero's memorial,
And temple of his power. They gathered their slighter dead
from the biting
Winds of time in his lee, the wide moor
About him is swollen with barrows and breaks upon many stones,
Lean gray guardians of old urned ashes,
In waves on waves of purple heather and blithe spray of its bells.
Here lies the hero, more than half God,
And nobody knows his name nor his race, in the bee-bright
necropolis,
With the stone circle and his tribe around him.
Sometimes perhaps (but who'd confess it?) in soft adolescence
We used to wonder at the world, and have wished
To hear some final harmony resolve the discords of life?
Here they are all perfectly resolved.

https://www.poemhunter.com/best-poems/robinson-jeffers/the-broadstone/
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Re: Craigs (Co. Antrim) by Ptarmigan on Monday, 27 March 2017
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