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Giant's Grave is a wedge tomb located in County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland. This Neolithic or Bronze Age megalithic monument belongs to a class of passage graves characterised by their wedge-shaped stone chambers, which taper from a broader entrance to a narrower rear end. The tomb sits upon bedrock of the Tyrone Group, a Visean-age formation comprising limestone, mudstone, sandstone and siltstone interspersed with chert, coal and conglomerate. These variable local stones would have been available to the monument's builders for constructing the chamber and its covering mound, though transported larger megaliths may have been employed for the principal structural elements.
Wedge tombs represent a distinctive Irish megalithic tradition, with over 600 examples recorded across the island. Their distribution and architectural features suggest construction during the Neolithic period, with some possibly reused into the Bronze Age. The tapering chamber design distinguishes them from other passage tomb types and may reflect changing burial practices or ritual beliefs over the generations of their use.
Giant's Grave is protected by the Historic Environment Division of the Department for Communities, Northern Ireland, under reference number 10877.
Giant's grave. wedge tomb is a scheduled monument protected by Department for Communities NI under reference 10877. View the official record →
Giant's Grave is a wedge tomb located in County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by DfC Northern Ireland (NISMR) under reference 10877.
Giant'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. 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 10877.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Court tomb (1.7 km), Multiple cist cairn (1.8 km), Giant's grave, the star cairn. court tomb (2.3 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 14 strands of Giant's grave. wedge tomb's history, each drawn from the record and mapped to the exact spot:
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Giant's grave. wedge tomb stands on Tyrone Group, bedrock that formed in the Visean. The rock here is limestone, mudstone, sandstone and siltstone, with subordinate chert, coal and conglomerate.