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| ASHLEYPARK LINKARDSTOWN BURIAL |
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| PHOTO by Pip POWELL 2009 |
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| This Linardstown Burial Tomb is situated on the NW shoulder of an E-W ridge in good open farmland. The round mound is encircled by two low, wide banks with internal ditches, giving an overall diameter of 90m. The chamber is trapezoidal in plan, 5m in length, narrows from 2.3m in width at the SE, to 1.3m at the open NW end and is centrally placed within the cairn. It was built around a limestone erratic that serves as a floor-stone and the sides of the chamber are formed by inward-leaning slabs, three to the NE and two to the SW. Two stones form the inner end of the structure. There is a stone at right angles to the SW side of the chamber, 1.2m from the inner end. The inner end of the structure is roofed by a number of slabs and served as a burial chamber. The site was excavated by Manning in 1985 and the skeletal remains of an adult male and a child were found here along with a variety of animal bones, a bone point, some chert flakes and Neolithic pottery with channeled decoration. Radiocarbon dating indicates a calendar date of 3,350 BC for the burials in the chamber. |
| CO-ORDINATES 52 56' 3.007"N...8 11' 20.381"W |