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Its capstone is supported by three uprights, but on e of these-and the capstone-were erected in the 19th century to make it look like a dolmen. However, the monument itself is genuinely Stone Age, for two of the uprights supporting the capstone are the portals of the forecourt of a court-tomb of around 3000 B.C., which gave access to a burial chamber of three sections in a cairn bordered with kerb-stones. Easier to find than this court-tomb, which is known locally as the Broad Stone, is another dolmen-like structure in a field beside the road, 1/3 mile to the south-west. This is known as the Dolmen or Cromleac, and consists of a capstone (repaired after having been shattered by lightning in 1976/77) supported by seven uprights. Yet it is probably not a genuine dolmen either, but-as a 1985 excavation showed - the chamber of a passage-tomb, remnants of the earthen mound of which survive. It probably dates from the 3rd millenium B.C., and was subsequently used for burial during the Bronze Age.

In the midst of an interesting Late Medieval settlement and field system, surviving at an altitude of 600 feet on the top of Long Mountain, is what must surely be one of Northern Ireland's most recent full-size dolmens.