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<< Our Photo Pages >> Annaghmare - Court Tomb in Ireland (Northern) in Co. Armagh

Submitted by Anthony_Weir on Monday, 14 October 2002  Page Views:

Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Annaghmare Alternative Name: The Black Castle
Country: Ireland (Northern)
NOTE: This site is 8.099 km away from the location you searched for.

County: Co. Armagh Type: Court Tomb
 Nearest Village: Crossmaglen
Map Ref: H9049017820
Discoverer Map Number: D29
Latitude: 54.101580N  Longitude: 6.617451W
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
4 Ambience:
5Superb
4Good
3Ordinary
2Not Good
1Awful
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5 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
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4 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
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Annaghmare
Annaghmare submitted by Anthony_Weir : Scan of colour slide from the 1970/80s (Vote or comment on this photo)
Court Tomb in Co. Armagh

The most westerly of a group of monuments around the sacred mountain of Slieve Gullion, this is a very fine, excavated example of a single-court tomb, whose out-of-line, south-facing, horseshoe-shaped court is very well preserved. It is over 8 metres in diameter, with walls of large orthostats alternating with sections of good dry-walling: a typical “post-and-panel” construction. Such a forecourt might well have had special acoustical properties important in ritual.
The gallery is 7 metres long, segmented by jambs (one of which has an uncompleted cup-mark) into 3 chambers. Much of the cairn (which is nearly 20 metres long) survives to a height of 1.8 metres. Two lateral chambers at the N end of the cairn were built a little later than the rest of the tomb, and have independent entrances. The siting of the tomb on a rock outcrop is unusual.

SMR Number ARM 027:007
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H9017 : Visitors car park at Achadh an Marbh/Annaghmare Court Tomb by Eric Jones
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New dates from the north, and a proposed chronology for Irish court tombs by Andy B on Saturday, 23 January 2016
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New dates from the north, and a proposed chronology for Irish court tombs by Rick Schulting, Eileen Murphy, Carleton Jones and Graeme Warren, 2011

We here present 33 new AMS measurements on human and animal bone from eight court tombs and two monuments with passage tomb affinities. While some determinations confirm earlier Neolithic use, others relate to Early Bronze Age burial activity. Unexpectedly, the animal bone dates all fall within the second millennium AD.

The results are discussed in the context of the known corpus of court tomb dates, a critical assessment of which suggests that many early charcoal dates should be discounted. Bayesian modelling of 47 determinations from twelve sites places the initial use of court tombs and by extension their construction in the period 3700-3570 cal. BC, a time that is emerging as very dynamic, with strong peaks in activity in both the mortuary and settlement spheres across Ireland and Britain. Stable isotope data also obtained continue to support the pattern of little or no use of marine protein in coastal areas in the Irish and British Neolithic.

Schulting, R.J., Murphy, E., Jones, C., and Warren, G. 2011. New dates from the north, and a proposed chronology for Irish court tombs. Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy 112C: 1-60.

https://www.academia.edu/1377471/New_dates_from_the_north_and_a_proposed_chronology_for_Irish_court_tombs
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