knockoneill court tomb

A large well-preserved court-tomb with a more than semicircular forecourt formed of large boulders, and located on a ridge 700 feet high with a fine view ofer the Bann valley. Behind the forecourt is a broad burial-gallery of two separate chambers, with one set of jambs immediately inside the portal stones and a further set dividing the gallery which still carry their ponderous capstone. The kerb of the mound is still well defined by upright stones, and within it - and behind the chamber - is a further lateral chamber reached from the eastern side of the mound. The Neolithic pottery found in this lateral chamber was of a different variety to that excavated in the main gallery, and a Bronze Age urn was found to have been secondarily buried in the forecourt, after which an earthen mound was piled over much of the whole tomb.