What is recorded here

Wedge tomb in Carn, County Derry: a prehistoric chamber tomb, scheduled and protected, its wedge-shaped chamber built in the Neolithic or Bronze Age when people buried their dead beneath earth and marked the field with stone. The chamber still holds that old purpose: a room for the dead, a boundary for the living, a place where carn and chase and loss may have been spoken into shape.

The official Northern Ireland record identifies this as WEDGE TOMB. Recorded period: PREHISTORIC; NEO/B.A.. Recorded protection: Scheduled. The official map point was placed at the centre of the recorded archaeological site from the source map reference.

Wedge tomb; dates to the Late Neolithic or Early Bronze Age. It is a significant megalithic monument type commonly found in Atlantic Europe, reflecting early communal burial and ritual practices.

The monument record does not grant public access. Check the route and ask the landowner before entering private land.