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Image of Tamybuck (Wedge Tomb) by ryaner

You want it to be aligned on Slemish but, alas, it isn’t.

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ryaner Aug 22, 2021

The double walling is evident on the southern side of the tomb but the area to the west has been quarried and the larger stones there are difficult to interpret.

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ryaner Aug 22, 2021

Looking north-east – it looks very messy from this angle. Note the cairn rubble to the right, southern side of the tomb. Much quarrying has taken place around the tomb.

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ryaner Aug 22, 2021

Fine double-walling on the northern side.

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ryaner Aug 22, 2021

Single chamber gallery, looking south-west.

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ryaner Aug 22, 2021

The back of the tomb, I think. Slemish is the pudding bowl hill in the distance.

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ryaner Aug 22, 2021

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Tamybuck

Wedge Tomb

ryaner Oct 3, 2021

I’d normally have some quite detailed map screenshots with me on these ventures but something happened over the last while. This was the second time in recent days when I’d forgotten to upload the feckin’ things. So even though this would be relatively easy to find, tucked in behind a wall of a small paddock about 60 metres from the road, it was like being back in the old days, relying on the OS map and a bit lost.

There’s quite a lot to see here, when you eventually find it. It’s at the east end of of a large field, west of the junction of Lisles Hill Road and Lough Road, hidden from view until you enter the field and head south-east a bit. The ground south of the gallery has been quarried, destroying the outer walling on that side. The southern inner wall of the gallery is still there, as is the northern and its outer walling.

I had only a short time here as there were cattle in the field, the kind that take a partial interest and begin a slow saunter towards you. There are many stones scattered around the gallery, possible roofstones and other orthostats. A single roofstone rests on the fill between the inner and outer walling on the northern side. I would have liked to have had a better nose around but legged it before the bovine onslaught arrived.