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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Batu Ritong
Country: Malaysia Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Nearest Village: Pa Lungan
Latitude: 3.800000N Longitude: 115.533333E
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3	Reasonable but with some damage
2	Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1	Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
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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
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**Batu Ritong** submitted by Runemage : Megaliths are monuments carved on boulders to mark important events of the Kelabit people. Image copyright: Tianyake (tian yake), hosted on Flickr and displayed under the terms of their API. (Vote or comment on this photo)

Megalithic monuments are dotted all over the mountains of Bario and Ba Kelalan in Sarawak, Long Pasia in Sabah and the Krayan in Kalimantan whose communities share a culture, language, history and kinship

Carolyn Hong writes: Supang’s husband, Nabun, took me on a short walk into the jungle to see the Batu Ritong, a dolmen. It looks like a table for giants with three stone slabs supporting a fourth one laid flat like a tabletop. But the two-metre-high monument remains standing even after it was said to have been damaged by Tom Harrisson, a swashbuckling British soldier-anthropologist, who excavated it in 1962.

The stone was erected as the secondary burial site for a Kelabit nobleman named Ritong many years ago. In the past, it was common for bones to be reburied a year after the first burial.

Nabun pointed to a gaping hole. “When I first saw it in 1972, it was almost upright. This crack was just a hairline.” It’s not certain when anyone will get around to restoring this monument, which is listed as a historical site.

Pa Lungan also has an ancient stone mound, said to have been used for burials. Those walking here from Bario will come across a huge rock carved with images of a hornbill and people.

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