Although this double court tomb is very ruined it's in a great location! The lond zig-zagging track that climbs the steep hillside to reach the tomb is an experience in itself. At several points there is a sheer drop on one side and a vertical rockface on the other.
The remains of the tomb are split in two but a wall and a more modern fence. The cairn is aligned east-west and the wall runs north-south across the middle of it. On the east side of the wall ire the broken remains of one gallery. Just a few shattered slabs of limestone poke out of the cairn rubble and bits of peat that still cover part of it. On the west side is 25m of cairn with the most intact piece of gallery, but even this is very ruined.
However, as I said it is the location that makes this site. It is situated at the top of a stepp valley overlooking some massive sink-holes, which seems to have been a very common practice in these limestone areas. The more I come across this aspect of tomb locations the more I think that the sink-holes must have had a special meaning to the ancients that built these great monuments - possibly gateways to the underworld?
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