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PORTAL TOMB in Ticloy

PORTAL TOMB

What is recorded here

One chamber, two or more upright stones, one flat roof stone, built in the Neolithic in County Antrim. People carried stone from elsewhere, aligned the opening, and left a place where the dead could be remembered across generations.
The official Northern Ireland record identifies this as PORTAL TOMB. Recorded period: PREHISTORIC; NEOLITHIC. Recorded protection: Scheduled. The official map point was placed at the centre of the recorded archaeological site from the source map reference.
Portal tomb; Neolithic period. It is a scheduled monument, indicating its recognized archaeological importance, though specific wider significance details are not provided in the record.

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What survives
Recorded monument

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