What is recorded here

Two long slabs lean against each other inside a grassy mound, forming a narrow chamber that barely fits a crouching person. The tomb sits on a limestone ridge above Leana, half swallowed by a field wall and exposed rock. It is small enough to overlook, yet old enough to predate every road, fence and farm in the valley. Someone carried stone up that slope and arranged it to hold death steady while the living world turned above.

At the E edge of a NE-SW ridge (above the 500’ contour) in mixed rough pasture and exposed limestone pavement, from where the ground slopes down immediately to the E. Identified by Westropp (1905, 215, site A). Listed as ‘Wedge tomb (possible)’ in the RMP (1996). This wedge tomb (L 1.6m; int. Wth 0.6m at WSW, narrowing to 0.58m at ENE) is orientated ENE-WSW, and comprises two almost parallel slabs (L 1.4-1.6m; H 0.4-0.45m) set on edge, protruding from the centre of a grass-covered cairn (6.4m E-W; 5.3m N-S; H 0.4-0.6m) with possible kerbstones visible at the S. the monument is incorporated into a grass-covered field wall running NW-SE. Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy and Conn Herriott Date of upload: 23-10-2023

Wedge tomb; late Neolithic or early Bronze Age. Its location on a prominent ridge suggests it may have had ritual or territorial significance in the landscape.

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