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PoulnabroneDolmen

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Image ID :	Paulnabrone
View/Description :	View of the dolmen
Image Date :	10/23/2006
Image Creator :	Jon Sullivan
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Rights Owner :	Public domain
Image Source :	http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Paulnabrone.jpg
URL to larger image :	http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/75/Paulnabrone.jpg

Work ID :	PoulnabroneDolmen
Title :	Poulnabrone Dolmen Poll na mBrón (Irish)
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Date (of work) :	4200 BC to 2900 BC
Location/Site :	Ireland [TGN] Munster [TGN] Clare [TGN] County Clare Burren
GIS Coordinates :	+53.048842-9.139953
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Description :	Neolithic portal tomb situated 8km (5 miles) south of Ballyvaughan and 9.6km (6 miles) north-west of Kilnaboy; a twelve foot, thin, slab-like, tabular capstone supported by two slender portal stones; the capstone is 1.8m (6ft) from the ground, creating a chamber in a 9m (30ft) low cairn
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Work Type :	Architecture [AAT] Sculpture [AAT] Monument
Measurements :	1.8 m tall [PORTAL STONES] 12 ft long [CAPSTONE]
Material :	stone
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Style/Period/ Group/Movement :	Prehistoric
Cultural Context :	Neolithic
Subject :	Funerary Grave Tomb Monument Marker Curiosity Memorial
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Text Reference :	http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dolmen
Keywords :	monument, marker, ritual, barrow, trabeated, post-and-lintel
Notes :	dolmen (also known as cromlech, anta, Hünengrab, Hunebed, Goindol, quoit, and portal dolmen) is a type of single-chamber megalithic tomb, usually consisting of three or more upright stones supporting a large flat horizontal capstone (table)