Equinozio a Loughcrew,cairn T (Irlanda)

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This very impressive court tomb was a peat-covered, largely featureless mound and was threatened with removal in an agricultural reclamation scheme. It was excavated between 1979 and 1982, shown to be of great interest, and reprieved.
A semicircular forecourt at the SE end leads through a portal with a massive lintel, into the burial gallery which is subdivided into 3 chambers in a short trapezoidal cairn. The cairn's drystone side revetment walls still stand to some height and some of the corbel stones of the roof are still in place.
Cremated bone representing the remains of 21 people, flint implements and Neolithic pottery were found during the excavation, some of the material in the court area. Radiocarbon determinations suggest a date of about 3500 BC, placing it in the Neolithic period, but there were also signs of later, Bronze Age, activity in the court and at the back of the cairn.

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