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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.
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 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.
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 ...
Kazanlak Thracian tomb and other notable sites in the region named Valley of the Thracian Rulers: Golyama Arsenalka tomb; Griffins tomb; Helvetia tomb; Ostrusha tomb; Seutes III tomb; Shushmanets tomb; Madara Rider (Madara archeological reserve) Magura Cave; Maltepe Maltepe Mound; Marcianopolis; Mezek; Nesebar; Nicopolis ad Istrum; Nicopolis ad ...
Prehistoric Paleolithic finds of lithic industry, Poggio Sommavilla-Grappignano, Tiber Valley. [3] [4] [5]The morphological entity of the river terrace of Poggio Sommavilla-Grappignano at the confluence of the Tiber and the Aia torrent in front of the Treja (Paleotevere), [6] [7] geologically made up of gravelly-sandy deposits, undoubtedly constitutes the area that boasts the greatest density ...
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 .
Craig Mound has been called "an American King Tut's Tomb". George C. Davis Mound C: Caddoan Mounds State Historic Site, Cherokee County, Texas: 800–1200 CE Caddoan Mississippian culture Mound C, the northernmost mound of the three at the site, it was used as a ceremonial burial mound, not for elite residences or temples like the other two. [12]