Caer Dyni
Caer Dyni is a small portal tomb on the beach east of Criccieth at Porthmadog in Gwynedd in Wales . The facility was described as a stone box by Glyn Daniel in 1950 . In 1868 it was still clearly visible that it was a portal tomb, as the capstone was still resting on an end stone. A number of slightly smaller stones are located around the base of the large stones. The east-west oriented chamber measures about 1.3 × 0.8 m. The remains of a 13.0 × 8.0 m mound have led to a dating back to the Bronze Age .
The tilted capstone has a large notch. The two stones that support the capstone appear to be a different type of rock than the coarse sandstone of the capstone. They found 13 bowls ( English cups ) on the supporting stones. Another 10 megalithic sites in Wales also have bowls.
Nearby is Ystum Cegid Isaf .
literature
- Vicki Cummings, Alasdair Whittle: Places of special virtue. Megaliths in the Neolithic landscapes of Wales (Cardiff studies in archeology). Oxbow Books, Oxford 2004, ISBN 1-84217-108-9 , p. 106.
- Frances Lynch: Gwynedd. A guide to ancient and historic Wales . HMSO, London 1995, ISBN 0-11-701574-1 .
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Coordinates: 52 ° 55 '14.2 " N , 4 ° 12' 58.3" W.