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Image of Cohaw (Court Tomb) by ryaner

Summer rose-bay willow herb on the eastern bank of the cairn.

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Image of Cohaw (Court Tomb) by ryaner

This is the sealed, dividing chamber between the north and south tombs, the western wall of which has been removed.

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Image of Cohaw (Court Tomb) by ryaner

Ectrance jambs of the northern chambers, with a sillstone visible between them. Cohaw is satisifyingly symmetrical and all four sets of jambstones, the two sets of entrances and the two sets of chamber dividers, have a separating sillstone.

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Image of Cohaw (Court Tomb) by ryaner

On the eastern side of the northern chamber is this unsocketed stone propped up with concrete by the excavators in 1949. It’s a possible roofstone I guess.

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Image of Cohaw (Court Tomb) by ryaner

The southern court of the suavely symmetrical Cohaw.

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Image of Cohaw (Court Tomb) by ryaner

This is the sealed chamber that splits the two galleries of the back to back dual court tomb.

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Image of Cohaw (Court Tomb) by ryaner

Looking southish at the smaller of the two galleries of this dual-court tomb.

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Image of Cohaw (Court Tomb) by ryaner

I was fascinated by this arrangement of stones, the small stone being jammed between the shoulder of the right-hand orthostat and the jambstone.

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Image of Cohaw (Court Tomb) by ryaner

After many recent trips around the court tombs of the border region, most of which are wrecked, it was great to arrive here and see it in such good condition, without being overly restored.

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Image of Cohaw (Court Tomb) by ryaner

Looking out between the jambstones of the northernmost chamber into the court.

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Image of Cohaw (Court Tomb) by ryaner

Looking north alone the galleries with jambstones and sillstones still intact. This was excavated, but not overly restored like some of the tombs north of the border.

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Image of Cohaw (Court Tomb) by ryaner

Outlying, concreted stone. It may be a roof-stone.

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Image of Cohaw (Court Tomb) by bogman

Very accessible and easy to find and in good condition, just off the road two fields away from a restored old schoolhouse, a pleasant find on my way home from the north yesterday

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Sites within 20km of Cohaw