Long Barrows — a child's perspective

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CianMcLiam C
CianMcLiam Jan 25, 2007 08:20:40
Replying to slumpystones

I've often thought that myself about the dolmens in Ireland, the few that have cairns are rarely much over a foot or so above ground, perhaps they made a ramp and then removed the stones to reveal the sculpture? I cant reallly imagine why you would cover the wonderful tripod dolmens with a cairn, maybe these ramp remains just looked like denuded cairns.

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bawn79 Jan 25, 2007 10:54:43
Replying to CianMcLiam

CianMcLiam wrote:
I've often thought that myself about the dolmens in Ireland, the few that have cairns are rarely much over a foot or so above ground, perhaps they made a ramp and then removed the stones to reveal the sculpture? I cant reallly imagine why you would cover the wonderful tripod dolmens with a cairn, maybe these ramp remains just looked like denuded cairns.
I actually thought that was FACT! (my primary school teacher certainly thought so), i presumed all dolmens were covered in clay/ cairn at one stage and that it had been removed/ blown away.