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Wedge Tomb at Limavady is a Neolithic or Bronze Age megalithic tomb, one of the distinctive wedge-shaped chamber monuments characteristic of Ireland and western Britain. Built from stone slabs arranged to form a narrow burial chamber that widens towards its entrance, this monument exemplifies the architectural tradition of the 4th to 2nd millennium BC. The tomb sits upon bedrock of the Argyll Group, metamorphic limestone and marble formed during the Neoproterozoic, which would have provided readily available stone for its construction.
The monument occupies a rural position in the Limavady area of County Londonderry, where the underlying geology shaped both the building materials and the landscape visible to its Bronze Age creators. Wedge tombs typically contained inhumations alongside pottery and other grave goods, serving as permanent focal points for family or community burial practices across generations. The site remains largely as it survives in the modern landscape, its stones worn by millennia.
Protected under Historic Environment Division reference 12653, the tomb represents significant archaeological heritage. Such monuments offer crucial evidence for understanding prehistoric settlement patterns, burial ritual and social organisation in early Iron Age communities across the north-west of the island.
Wedge tomb is a scheduled monument protected by Department for Communities NI under reference 12653. View the official record →
Wedge Tomb at Limavady is a Neolithic or Bronze Age megalithic tomb, one of the distinctive wedge-shaped chamber monuments characteristic of Ireland and western Britain. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by DfC Northern Ireland (NISMR) under reference 12653.
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.
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 12653.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Cloghnagalla, cloghnagalla. wedge tomb (0.8 km), White fort. cashel, souterrain & cairn (1.5 km), Black fort. rath (1.7 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 14 strands of Wedge tomb's history, each drawn from the record and mapped to the exact spot:
Every location is different. Not every section appears for every place, only what the historical record actually holds turns up in a report.
Wedge tomb stands on Argyll Group, bedrock that formed in the Neoproterozoic. The rock here is marble, meta-limestone.