Cae'rarfau
The chamber grave ( English Chambered tomb ) of Cae'rarfau (also called Cae-yr-Arfau, Caer Yrfa or Cae yr Arfan) is located in the garden of "Cae'rarfau house", west of the road "Heol Creigiau", 0.75 kilometers north of Creigiau near Caerphilly in the Principal Area Cardiff (formerly Mid Glamorgan ) in Wales . The type of indeterminable chamber grave , partly overgrown with ivy, is integrated into a modern wall on the south side of a driveway. The chamber was limed while it was being used as a coal store.
The chamber grave consists only of three stone slabs - two bearing stones and a ceiling slab - which form a chamber about one meter wide. The ceiling slab, measuring around 2.0 × 1.6 × 0.3 meters, slopes down towards the south and is supported by smaller stones. The two upright supporting stones are 1.7 meters high. The one on the east side is about two meters wide and at the thickest end, close to the ground, 0.75 meters thick. The west plate is 1.5 meters wide and 0.3 meters thick. On the floor of the chamber lies a smaller plate measuring 1.0 × 0.75 meters. No traces of the hill are visible, but it appears that the chamber once stood at the north end of a long hill.
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. 180
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Coordinates: 51 ° 31 '50.3 " N , 3 ° 19' 53.9" W.