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Ballycommane

Ireland

DatedEst. 3300–2900 BCE

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Ballycommane is a boulder burial, also called a boulder tomb, with an associated pair of standing stones, in the townland of Ballycommane (Irish Baile Uí Chomáin), east of Durrus in County Cork, Ireland. Both monuments are probably of Bronze Age date. They were excavated and restored in 1989.

The excavation yielded no datable remains.

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Where it sits in time

The site's dated range, placed against world reference points.

The scale is logarithmic: each step to the left is about ten times older than the last.

  1. Göbekli Tepe9600 BCE
  2. First farming9500 BCE
  3. Avebury2600 BCE
  4. Great Pyramid of Giza2560 BCE
  5. Stonehenge2500 BCE
  6. Bronze Age collapse1200 BCE
  7. Rome founded753 BCE
  8. Parthenon447 BCE
  9. Hadrian's Wall122 CE
  10. Machu Picchu built1450 CE
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Est. 3300–2900 BCEHow this date was established: Type comparisonTypical for this type

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Ballycommane

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The tomb is unusual in having a capstone of white quartz, which rests on three smaller stones, as is usual for a monument of this type.

Ballycommane

Description

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The boulder tomb and the two standing stones lie on an east-west ridge. The tomb is unusual in having a capstone of white quartz, which rests on three smaller stones, as is usual for a monument of this type. A hole and two grooves at the eastern corner of the boulder are of particular interest; similar grooves have been found at Maughanasilly and possibly at Kealkill. The two standing stones are cuboid, about one metre high, with flat tops.

Excavations

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The 1989 excavation found no datable remains, although there was a small stone cist near the north-east stone and a ritual deposit beneath a standing stone.