Wedge Tombs such as found at Ballyganner South in the Burren Co. Clare (left) are generally believed to belong to a bronze age tradition of burial. The tombs are named after their wedge shape plan, though they too are found in many forms from quite massive to tiny box chambers. The range of 'grave goods' found inside the few that have been excavated have categorised these as a development after the end of the stone age. The stones that make up the chambers are almost entirely undecorated though most were believed to have been covered in a mound of stones or 'cairn'. As with a lot of these ancient monuments, the cairns have been mostly robbed out to build walls and roads through the millenia.

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Wedge Tombs such as found at Ballyganner South in the Burren Co. Clare (left) are generally believed to belong to a bronze age tradition of burial. The tombs are named after their wedge shape plan, though they too are found in many forms from quite massive to tiny box chambers. The range of 'grave goods' found inside the few that have been excavated have categorised these as a development after the end of the stone age. The stones that make up the chambers are almost entirely undecorated though most were believed to have been covered in a mound of stones or 'cairn'. As with a lot of these ancient monuments, the cairns have been mostly robbed out to build walls and roads through the millenia.

See more Wedge Tomb galleries here