Caerhun
Caerhun ( Welsh Bwrdeistref Sirol ) is the location of a chamber grave ( English chambered tombs ) and some menhirs ( Welsh Maen hir - English standing stone ).
The chamber tomb
The chamber tomb is sunk in Caerhun on the Tal-y-Fan hill overlooking the Conwy Valley, west of Rowen, near Conwy in the Principal Area with the status of a county borough in north Wales . The underground chamber is small. An adult can just crouch down. On the south-eastern side there seem to be the remains of a forecourt, accompanied by a hill about ten meters long.
The menhirs of Caerhun
Two of the menhirs to the east of Maen y Bardd are visible today. One is free, the others are integrated into the field boundary. The stones were previously considered to be part of a row of stones associated with the chamber tomb, which recent studies refute. They form an almost right-angled triangle between the chambers of Maen y Bardd and Rhiw and are 105 and 65 meters away from the respective systems. Whether the alignment is intentional is unknown. If the stones are Bronze Age , they would be a few centuries younger than the tombs and instead may be connected to the menhirs of Cae Coch, 850 m to the west.
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: 53 ° 13 ′ 44.7 " N , 3 ° 53 ′ 14" W.