Getting excited about stones, that is. Well, it has been lately. Up until yesterday. Yesterday I visited a little known tomb in Donegal. When I looked at it I nearly wept with amazement. It's nothing special to look at as it's roofless & cairnless. However, look a little more closely and it suddenly becomes quite astounding and could easily blow away a few dating/timeline theories.
On first inspection the monument is court tomb. The archeaological inventory classes it as such, but does say that the rear chamber 'resembles a portal tomb'. Resembles? THE REAR CHAMBER IS(WAS) A PORTAL TOMB! The monument is a portal tomb that has been extended and turned into a court tomb, much in the same way that Five Wells was a portal tomb before it was a passage tomb. The probable reason that the inventory says it 'resembles a portal tomb' is that court tombs are thought to be a thousand years older than the portals. May be they should have a rethink! And at least make them contemporary.
If this wasn't a portal tomb first then it at least shows the development of court tombs into portal tombs in a way no other site can demonstrate, but I don't think this is the case.
 Reply | with quote | Posted by FourWinds
6th June 2005ce
12:55 |
It's pretty hard right now ... (FourWinds, Jun 06, 2005, 12:55)- Re: It's pretty hard right now ... (Jane, Jun 06, 2005, 14:01)
- Re: It's pretty hard right now ... (ToneStone, Jun 06, 2005, 15:26)
- Re: Lovely Breconshire court tombs (elderford, Jun 07, 2005, 10:17)
- Re: It's pretty hard right now ... (Kammer, Jun 07, 2005, 11:51)
- Re: yes (elderford, Jun 07, 2005, 13:53)
- Re: yes (FourWinds, Jun 07, 2005, 14:12)
- Re: oooh (elderford, Jun 07, 2005, 16:38)
- Re: oooh (FourWinds, Jun 07, 2005, 18:34)
- Re: yes (Kammer, Jun 08, 2005, 09:38)
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