What is recorded here

Wedge tomb in Dunmakelter stands in County Antrim as a prehistoric marker of buried life and forgotten ceremony. Its shape suggests people who understood death as a threshold rather than an ending. The land remembers hands that moved stone and minds that believed beyond breath.

The official Northern Ireland record identifies this as wedge tomb. Recorded period: PREHISTORIC. 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. Its form is characteristic of the transition from passage tomb to cist burial traditions in Atlantic Europe.

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