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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.
Tomb of Prehistoric King Dates Back 5,000 Years Richard T. Nowitz - Getty Images. Excavations in central China uncovered a 5,000-year-old tomb filled with artifacts from the Dawenkou Culture.
Dartmoor kistvaens are burial tombs or cists from the late Neolithic and early Bronze Age, i.e. from c. 2500 BC to c. 1500 BC. [1] Kistvaens have been found in many places, including Dartmoor, a 954 km 2 (368 square miles) area of moorland in south Devon, England.
Archaeologists have discovered a second Early Bronze Age tomb inside England’s Dartmoor National Park. Roughly a three-foot-by-three-foot square, the granite and wood box dates to about 1800 BC.
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 ...
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 .