What is recorded here

Caherfadda holds a broken wedge tomb where massive limestone slabs still stand upright on a gentle southern slope. The chamber narrows from west to east, trapping a fallen capstone in three fragments while a leaning blocking stone marks the western entrance. Carleton Jones identified the structure, revealing that human hands shaped the local rock into a narrow chamber before time damaged it. The grassy pavement and nearby enclosure suggest a busy landscape where people lived, marked death, and changed the earth repeatedly across centuries.

On grass-covered limestone pavement which slopes gently to the S, within a large multiperiod field system (CL017-180----). Identified by Carleton Jones. This wedge tomb (2.15m E-W; int. Wth 1.2m at W, narrowing to 0.95m at E; max. H 0.75m) is built of limestone slabs, set upright on their long edges. The N sidestone (L 2.15m) is split into two fragments. The S sidestone (L 1.75m) is unbroken. A 'blocking stone' (L 0.8m; H 0.6m) is set at the W end of the chamber, between the sidestones, and leans to the W. The capstone has fallen into the chamber interior and is broken into three fragments, one of which rests against the S sidestone. The SW annexe of an enclosure (CL009-207002-) lies c. 15m to the E. The following image has been uploaded: CL009-207001-_01.jpg View of tomb from W Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Conn Herriott Date of upload: 13 July 2022

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