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COURT TOMB: HORNED CAIRN in Legland

COURT TOMB: HORNED CAIRN

What is recorded here

COURT TOMB: HORNED CAIRN in Legland is a court tomb: horned cairn in Legland, County Tyrone, Ireland. Maybe its exact date, purpose and surviving form will remain uncertain.
The official Northern Ireland record identifies this as COURT TOMB: HORNED CAIRN. 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: horned cairn, Neolithic period. This type of tomb is significant as an early form of megalithic funerary architecture, reflecting communal burial practices and early social organisation in prehistoric Ireland.

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