Gwernvale
Coordinates: 51 ° 52 ′ 0 ″ N , 3 ° 8 ′ 50.2 ″ W.
Gwernvale (or Crickhowell) was about 45 m long, ( English Chambered long cairn ) called Cairn of the Cotswold Severn Tomb type . The remains of the Neolithic complex, which can be traced back to about 3750 BC by the remains of wooden posts. Chr. Could be dated, were examined and removed or relocated in the course of the construction of the A40 . It was previously northwest of Crickhowell in Powys in Wales . The plant is one of the 10 plants (such as Ty Isaf ) that are grouped together to form the Breconshire type, as they have features that distinguish them from the Black Mountains type ( Ty Illtud ).
Eight plates are still preserved, which represent the remains of the southern chamber. The outlines of the Cairns above the Usk River , some of which are under the road, are marked by concrete posts. In and in front of the passage of the anterior chamber, all of the “blocking material” used to seal the access was found.
Gwernvale was built on a site that was already in use in the Mesolithic . Microliths and the remains of nutshells are evidence of this. The cairn had a "horned" forecourt and a false door on the east side. This not atypical shape is u. a. at the Belas Knap , Capel Garmon , Pipton , Stoney Littleton and Ty Isaf plants. The three chambers had their entrances on the long sides. Two on the south side, one on the north side. To the west of the hill, the remains of a structure that could have been a stone box were found . A special feature were the traces of six wooden posts arranged in pairs, which formed an approximately 3.5 m long construction immediately in front of the false door and laterally offset under the later cairn that of a second wooden structure. It is in these areas that most of the Meso- and Neolithic finds have been made, including millstone fragments and ceramic shards.
A reconstruction of the Gwernvale facility, which was located in the Brecon Beacons National Park , can be found in the local museum. The Growing Stone (also called Cwrt-y-Gollen) is a nearby standing four-meter-high menhir .
See also
literature
- William J. Britnell, Hubert N. Savory: Gwernvale and Penywyrlod. Two Neolithic long cairns in the Black Mountains of Brecknock (= Cambrian Archaeological Monograph. 2). The Cambridge Archaeological Association, Bangor 1984, ISBN 0-947846-00 .