What is recorded here
Court tomb in Browndod, County Antrim. Neolithic people built it, giant grave in local story, stones still standing under open sky. Maybe they buried a king, maybe a mountain spirit. Either way, they believed the dead needed a address large enough to remember.
The official Northern Ireland record identifies this as COURT TOMB: GIANT'S GRAVE. Recorded period: NEOLITHIC; PREHISTORIC. Recorded protection: Scheduled. The official map point was placed at the centre of the recorded archaeological site from the source map reference.
Court tomb, Neolithic period. It is part of a broader tradition of megalithic funerary architecture in Atlantic Europe, reflecting early communal burial practices and social organisation.
The monument record does not grant public access. Check the route and ask the landowner before entering private land.
- What survives
- Recorded monument
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