Heston Brake
Heston Brake (also Heston Brake Long Barrow or Tumulus ) is a megalithic site near Chepstow in Monmouthshire in Wales . It is located about 100 meters west of Leechpool Lane on a hill above the Severn estuary , about 0.6 km northeast of Portskewett, and its type cannot be classified into the British typology.
Several heavily weathered orthostats form the remainder of a west-east oriented chamber which, including the corridor, is about 8.0 m long and 2.0 m wide. The nine bearing stones preserved in situ (at least four are missing) are made of pudding stone , all (six or seven) cap stones are missing. The associated long hill is at least 21.0 m long. The access to the dolmen is defined by two mighty portal stones. The axis of the corridor is offset from that of the chamber. This feature could suggest that it is a two-period structure. A smaller excavation was carried out in 1888.
literature
- Vicki Cummings, Alasdair Whittle: Places of special virtue - megaliths in the Neolithic landscapes of Wales. Oxbow, Oxford 2004, ISBN 1842171089 .
- William Bagnall-Oakeley: The Chambered Tumulus at Heston Brake. In: Clifton Antiquarian Club Proceedings , Volume 2, 1888 ( PDF ).
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Coordinates: 51 ° 35 ′ 40.7 " N , 2 ° 42 ′ 55.7" W.