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Taken: September 21, 2009
Caption: The great mound & its tombs Marker
Additional Description: [Inside Great Mound]

The Eastern TombThe Eastern tomb consists of a passage originally about 35m in length leading into a chamber, which, like Newgrange, has three side recesses and a beehive shaped roof built by corbelling. To construct the chamber roof the builders overlapping layers of large rocks until the roof could be sealed by a capstone 6m above the ground. Each of the three side recesses contains a stone basin which once held the cremated reamins of the dead.

The Western Tomb The Western tomb has a narrow 34m long passage which bends slightly to the right about two thirds of the way along. Just after the bend there is a sill stone and after that the passage narrows to just 40cm. The passage then broadens again to form a rectangular shaped chamber about 2m high that is roofed by a huge capstone 2m long. The basin stone in the passage was originally in the chamber area.
Submitted: February 6, 2010.
Database Locator Identification Number: p95487
File Size: 0.108 Megabytes

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