Bedd yr Afanc
Bedd yr Afanc ( German "Grave of Afanc" ), a water monster - is the only gallery grave in Wales . It is southeast of Brynberian in Pembrokeshire . The site, excavated in 1939, is located in the center of a U-shaped valley in the Preseli Mountains (Mynydd Preseli), on a low oval plateau surrounded by a swamp. Bedd yr Afanc dates from around 3500 BC. Chr.
Two parallel north-west-south-east oriented rows of stones in a low, oval earth or stone mound have been preserved. These are pairs of former bearing stones of the Ganges over half a meter high. This leads to a small, round chamber remnant in the west of the hill, which is formed from former bearing stones of a similar size. A total of 22 stones have been preserved, including no capstone.
Bedd yr Afanc is a Scheduled Monument .
In Welsh tales, Afanc was what looked like a giant beaver.
literature
- Vicki Cummings, Alasdair Whittle: Places of special virtue. Megaliths in the Neolithic landscapes of Wales. Oxbow, Oxford 2004, ISBN 1-84217-108-9 , p. 144.
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Coordinates: 51 ° 58 ′ 39.1 ″ N , 4 ° 45 ′ 22.3 ″ W.