Llech-Y-Tripedd
Llech-Y-Tripedd (also called Llech-y-Drybedd or Llech-y-Trybedd or the Altar Stone or the Samson's Quoit) is a Portal Tomb or Quoit southwest of Moylgrove, near Cardigan Bay, in Dyfed , Wales .
The finely balanced tripod dolmen consists of three columnar bearing stones that support the heavy triangular capstone, which is about three meters long, 2.5 meters wide at the widest point and almost one meter thick. On one side of the chamber lies a fallen stone that was still standing in the 17th century. If there was ever a cairn above the chamber, no trace of it has survived, although there are several small rocks below the capstone, which, however , are probably reading stones .
Llech-y-Tripedd is one of three similar dolmens that form a triangle to the north of the Preseli Mountains . The other two are Carreg Coetan Arthur and Pentre Ifan . All three could be connected to Carn Ingli, a prominent hill in the northwest. Llech-y-Tribedd is a Scheduled Monument .
A stile over the hedge leads to the pasture with the dolmen. About 1.0 km away is the Trellyffaint Dolmen .
Legend has it that the stone from the top of Carn Ingli was thrown into its current position by Samson - either the biblical Samson or the 6th century saint.
literature
- Vicki Cummings, Alasdair Whittle: Places of special virtue. Megaliths in the Neolithic landscapes of Wales. Oxbow, Oxford 2004, ISBN 1-84217-108-9 .
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Coordinates: 52 ° 3 ′ 16.3 " N , 4 ° 46 ′ 18.1" W.