Dyffryn Ardudwy
Coordinates: 52 ° 47 '4 " N , 4 ° 5' 40.2" W.
Dyffryn Ardudwy is located in Gwynedd , in north-west Wales , about 40 m above sea level on the flat slope of Moelfre in an area enclosed by a wall and wooded area on the edge of the village that gave it its name.
The excavation in 1960 revealed a well-preserved two-phase monument. First a small chamber was built in an oval cairn or a low platform with a forecourt. The small chamber consists of six supporting stones that support a capstone. In front of the portal, the parts of several Neolithic vessels, of the fine and simple "Irish Sea Ware" type, were found in a pit.
A second chamber was later built east of the first. This chamber now also has a modern concrete pillar to support the larger capstone. The chamber had a porch that contained broken pottery. Neolithic and Bronze Age ceramics have also been found inside the chamber. Some of the jars contained dark earth with a concentration of cremated bones that belonged to a single individual. Seven flints were found between the stones of the cairn and a broken arrowhead lay at its eastern end.
Both chambers of Dyffryn Ardudwy were ultimately integrated into the common, elongated, very flat cairn or enclosed by a low platform. But it is possible to discern the shape and size of the original smaller oval cairn that was initially built around the western chamber.
Nearby are the cairn of Cors y Gedol , the portal Tombs Bron y Foel Isaf and Gwern Einion and the menhirs of Meini Hirion .
literature
- Vicki Cummings, Alasdair Whittle: Places of special virtue. Megaliths in the Neolithic landscapes of Wales. Oxbow, Oxford 2004, ISBN 1-84217-108-9 .
