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Photo taken August 2021.
Posted Comments:
CharcoalBurner89 (2021-09-28)
Simply unbelievably beautiful! Thanks a lot to show us this site! Do you know how old the tomb should be? Celtic or even older?
Bladup (2021-09-28)
magnificent (Tomb, Setting and photo)
Martin L (2021-09-29)
@Bladup: i could not agree more. @CharcoalBurner89: afaik wedge tombs are usually attibuted/dating to the third millennium B.C. So quite a long time to go until 'celts' appeared.
CharcoalBurner89 (2021-09-29)
@Martin L: Ah, so it is Neolithic. You are right; that is pretty much a long time before 'celts' appeared.
GaelicLaird (2021-09-30)
Thanks for your kind words folks, yes it's quite a site and rare to find one with cairn covering. The weather wasn't at it's best when I visited, in clear weather the view out over the sea would be quite spectacular. There's another wedge tomb in an adjoining field but it was full of bullocks at the time of my visit so I left that one for another day.
Evidence from the small number of excavated wedge tombs suggests that they were being built between 2,500 and 2,000 BC representing the last phase of megalithic tomb building in Ireland. They are the most numerous megalithic tomb found in Ireland and account for over a third of all tombs in total. The majority of wedge tombs occur in the north, south and west of the country with very few in the middle or east. Many of them occur in areas that were formally rich in copper and many Bronze Age copper mines have been discovered in the same general areas. It is thought that by the late Bronze Age wedge tombs had fallen out of use for human burial.
The Celtic question....over the period from about 450 BC to AD 450 when it is commonly agreed by many that there were Celtic civilisations in western and central Europe, hardly any material evidence has been found in Ireland to substantiate the notion of a Celtic society. Indeed, there is no Celtic section in the National Museum, where the period is classified as Iron Age, followed by Early Christian. Obviously this is a debated topic :)
Evidence from the small number of excavated wedge tombs suggests that they were being built between 2,500 and 2,000 BC representing the last phase of megalithic tomb building in Ireland. They are the most numerous megalithic tomb found in Ireland and account for over a third of all tombs in total. The majority of wedge tombs occur in the north, south and west of the country with very few in the middle or east. Many of them occur in areas that were formally rich in copper and many Bronze Age copper mines have been discovered in the same general areas. It is thought that by the late Bronze Age wedge tombs had fallen out of use for human burial.
The Celtic question....over the period from about 450 BC to AD 450 when it is commonly agreed by many that there were Celtic civilisations in western and central Europe, hardly any material evidence has been found in Ireland to substantiate the notion of a Celtic society. Indeed, there is no Celtic section in the National Museum, where the period is classified as Iron Age, followed by Early Christian. Obviously this is a debated topic :)
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