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'Ballygroll 16' : Wedge Tomb

TownlandBallygroll
CountyDerry
Grid RefC 533 135
GPSC 53276 13522 (8m)
Longitude7° 10' 5.13" W
Latitude54° 57' 58.91" N
Nearest TownClaudy (6.2 Km)
OS Sheet7
UTM zone29U
UTM x617275.78008164
UTM y6092583.7321488

This is a subsite of:

Ballygroll Prehistoric Complex - Megalithic Complex
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Visit Notes

Sunday, 29th October 2006

You can see why they put a question mark after 'wedge tomb' on the notice board for this site. What an odd arrangement of stones!

It does appear to be a very small wedge tomb, but it is impossible to be sure. The whole thing is just 4m long and 2m wide. It does face west, which is very good wedge tomb behaviour, and has two fa?ßia stones. There seems to be a central gallery, but this is very narrow. The outer wall is U-shaped. There is a beautiful pure white quartzite stone set in the southeast corner of the outer wall.

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