Cist Grave Stones Mount Stewart

These Cist Grave Stones are located at the National Trust property of Mount Stewart, Newtownards.  Photographed by David from IrishSights.   
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A cist is a small stone-built coffin-like box or ossuary used to hold the bodies of the dead. Examples can be found across Europe and in the Middle East.  A cist may have been associated with other monuments, perhaps under a cairn or long barrow. Several cists are sometimes found close together within the same cairn or barrow. Often ornaments have been found within an excavated cist, indicating the wealth or prominence of the interred individual.  

Cist Grave Stones by IrishSights.com by irishsights on Sketchfab

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Ballynoe Stone Circle in 3D - An unusual fence!!

Ballynoe Stone Circle is a stone circle situated in the small hamlet of Ballynoe 2.5 miles south of Downpatrick, County Down, Northern Ireland. Photographed by David from IrishSights.   CLICK shot to upload, then I suggest you put it into toggle mode (bottom R).  This makes it much larger.   Then CLICK and hold and you can move the Stone Circle in ANY direction.

Ballynoe Stone Circle by IrishSights.com by IrishSights on Sketchfab

It is a large and complex site which appears as a large circle of over 50 closely spaced upright stones, some as much as six feet tall, with some small gaps, surrounding a space about 110 ft across. Two of the fallen stones have cavities which could be artificial cup-marks. The stones of the outer circle are nearly all composed of local Silurian grit, but a few are granite erratics.

The site is the result of long development and a late Neolithic to earlier Bronze Age date range is likely, as it seems to span several different building phases.

The mound was excavated in 1937-38 by Dutch archaeologist, Dr AE Van Giffen, The excavation concentrated on the mound, finding stone cists containing cremated bones.

I think this is amazing nowadays how we can easily see sites like this.  

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