Carreg Samson
The Dolmen Carreg Samson (also called Carreg Sampson , Samson's Stone , or Longhouse ) is located above Abercastle Bay, near Fishguard in Pembrokeshire in Wales . Carreg Samson is also the alternative name of the nearby Carn Wnda.
The approximately 4.5 m long and 2.7 m wide capstone rests on three of the seven upright bearing stones. The entire structure was once covered by a mound of earth or stone. At the beginning of the 20th century, the lateral gaps between the stones were blocked in order to use the dolmen, which could be a quoit , as a sheepfold.
Carreg Samson is a Scheduled Monument .
Nearby there are portal tombs such as:
The question has been raised whether Carreg Samson was a passage tomb , but no traces of a hallway were found in front of the entrance to the chamber.
The connection to Samson comes from the legend that St Samson put the capstone on with a finger.
Nearby is the Iron Age Promontory Fort Castell Coch (Abercastle) .
- Dolmen Carreg Samson
literature
- Frances Lynch: Megalithic Tombs and Long Barrows in Britain . Shire, Princes Risborough 1997, ISBN 0-7478-0341-2 p. 46 ( Shire archeology 73).
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Coordinates: 51 ° 57 '29.9 " N , 5 ° 7' 58.8" W.