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Giant's Grave is a wedge tomb located near Cookstown in County Tyrone, Northern Ireland. This Neolithic and Bronze Age megalithic monument belongs to the wedge tomb tradition, a distinctive type of gallery grave found across Ireland and western Britain. Wedge tombs are characterised by their tapering rectangular chambers, wider at the entrance and narrowing towards the rear, constructed from stone slabs and typically covered by a cairn of stones.
The monument sits on bedrock composed of Ordovician extrusive rocks, mafic lava and tuff that formed over 450 million years ago. This volcanic stone would have been available locally for the builders of the tomb, who selected and shaped it to construct their funerary monument. The presence of such resistant geology shaped both the landscape and the practical possibilities for monument construction in this region.
Giant's Grave is protected as a scheduled monument by the Historic Environment Division under reference 14431. The name reflects folk tradition associated with such impressive megalithic structures, a pattern repeated across the Irish landscape where local communities named these Bronze Age tombs after giants and legendary figures. The monument remains an important record of early funerary practices and settlement patterns in Neolithic and Bronze Age Ulster.
Giant's grave, big man's grave. wedge tomb is a scheduled monument protected by Department for Communities NI under reference 14431. View the official record →
Giant's Grave is a wedge tomb located near Cookstown in County Tyrone, Northern Ireland. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by DfC Northern Ireland (NISMR) under reference 14431.
Giant's grave, big man's grave. wedge tomb dates from the neo/b.a. period, and is classified as a megalithic tomb. It is one of over 32,000 scheduled monuments protected across the UK.
Giant's grave, big man's grave. wedge tomb is a Scheduled Ancient Monument, legally protected by DfC Northern Ireland (NISMR) — the body responsible for designating and safeguarding heritage sites in Ni. The official designation reference is 14431.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Cairn (2.8 km), Cairn (2.8 km), Cairn & alignment (3.2 km).
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Giant's grave, big man's grave. wedge tomb stands on Unnamed Extrusive Rocks, Ordovician, bedrock that formed in the Ordovician. The rock here is mafic lava and mafic tuff.