Poulnabrone dolmen

Poulnabrone dolmen is an strangely huge dolmen or portal tomb placed in the Burren, County Clare, Ireland. Situated on one of the maximum desolate and maximum points of the place, it accommodates 3 status portal stones supporting a horizontal capstone, and dates to the Neolithic duration, likely between 4200 BC and 2900 BC. It the quality regarded and most widely photographed of the about 172 dolmens in Ireland. Its karst limestone placing become fashioned round 350 million years in the past. It become constructed by way of neolithic farmers who choose the vicinity either for ritual, as a territorial marker, or as a collective burial website online, What remains these days is best the "stone skeleton" of the unique monument; initially it'd have been blanketed with soil, and its flagstone capped by a cairn.

When the site changed into excavated in 1986 and once more in 1988, round 33 human stays, which include the ones of adults, youngsters had been determined buried underneath it, at the side of various stone and bone gadgets that might have been positioned with them at the time of interment. Both the human stays and the burial gadgets date to among 3800 BC and 3200 BC.