On the Rocks
by Jennifer Robin
Title
On the Rocks
Artist
Jennifer Robin
Medium
Photograph - Photography - Digital
Description
mar 27 11- 117 Poulnabrone dolmen is a Portal Tomb in the Burren, County Clare, Ireland, dating back to the Neolithic period, probably between 4200 BC and 2900 BC. It is situated 5 miles south of Ballyvaughan, 6 miles north-west of Kilnaboy. A crack was discovered in the eastern portal stone in 1985. Following the resulting collapse, the dolmen was dismantled, and the cracked stone was replaced. Excavations during that time found that between 16 and 22 adults and six children were buried under the monument. Personal items buried with the dead included a polished stone axe, a bone pendant, quartz crystals, weapons and pottery. In the Bronze Age, around 1700 BC, a newborn baby was buried in the portico, just outside the entrance. With its dominating presence on the limestone landscape of the Burren, the tomb was probably a centre for ceremony and ritual until well into the Celtic period, or it may have served as a territorial marker in the Neolithic landscape. According to Radiocarbon dating, the tomb was likely used between 3,800 and 3,600 BC. The findings are now at the Clare Museum, Ennis, loaned from the National Museum of Ireland. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poulnabrone_dolmen
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