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Giant's Grave is a wedge tomb located near Strabane in County Tyrone, Northern Ireland. This megalithic monument dates to the Neolithic and Bronze Age periods and represents a distinctive form of chambered burial monument characteristic of Irish prehistoric funerary practice. The structure comprises a stone-built chamber oriented roughly east-west, typical of wedge tombs which are concentrated in the southwestern and western regions of Ireland. Such monuments served as communal burial places and reflect the ritual and social organisation of early farming communities in the island of Ireland during the third and second millennia before the common era.
Giant's grave. wedge tomb is a scheduled monument protected by Department for Communities NI under reference 14059. View the official record →
Giant's Grave is a wedge tomb located near Strabane in County Tyrone, Northern Ireland. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by DfC Northern Ireland (NISMR) under reference 14059.
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 14059.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Cashel (3.4 km), Two stone circles & possible alignment (4.1 km), Standing stone & two stone circles (4.2 km).
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