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They are thought to be the oldest monument in Liverpool, having been part of a megalithic tomb constructed between 4000 and 3000 BC. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] The stones are housed in the Harthill Greenhouses in Calderstones Park, having been moved from their previous location in an enclosure just outside the park gates in 1954 to protect them from further ...
The tomb, situated on a small ridge, is a cist, a type of burial chamber found in Ireland on the south and east coast.It dates from about 3000 B.C. to 2500 B.C. A capstone, measuring 1.96 metres (6 ft 5 in) by 1.05 metres (3 ft 5 in), is supported by smaller stones.
In archeology, a cist (/ ˈ k ɪ s t /; also kist / ˈ k ɪ s t /; [1] [2] from Ancient Greek: κίστη, Middle Welsh Kist or Germanic Kiste) or cist grave is a small stone-built coffin-like box or ossuary used to hold the bodies of the dead.
The Carraig á Mhaistin stone (transl. Bully Rock) is a megalithic tomb located in Cork harbour. It was previously believed to have been an 18th-century folly , built by Murrough O'Brien, 1st Marquess of Thomond , like the nearby Siddons Tower folly.
Menhirs and other standing stones are technically orthostats although the term is used by archaeologists only to describe individual prehistoric stones that constitute part of larger structures. Common examples include the walls of chamber tombs and other megalithic monuments, and the vertical elements of the trilithons at Stonehenge .
The Bronze Age tomb is undergoing more examinations at a lab. ... Archaeologists descended upon the roughly 3-foot square cist, a kind of prehistoric box-shaped tomb, excavating it from the park ...
All these types of tomb were built from large slabs of rock which were uncut or worked only slightly. In each case, there was a "doorway" made from two large stones facing each other. The doorway led to an inner chamber, or a passage and chamber, lined with flat slabs.
Porth Hellick Down is a Neolithic and Bronze Age archeological site located on the island of St Mary's, in the Isles of Scilly in Great Britain.The ancient burial monument encompasses a large cairn cemetery that includes at least six entrance graves, other unchambered cairns, and a prehistoric field system.