Maen y Bardd
Maen y Bardd (also called The Bard's Stone or The Poet Stone in German "Barden or Dichterstein" ) is a ca. 3500 BC. Chr. Built, mainly in Ireland occurring, neolithic Portal Tomb . It stands on the Tal-y-Fan hill overlooking the Conwy Valley, west of Rowen, near Conwy in the Principal Area with the status of a county borough in north Wales . In the British Isles, portal tombs are megalithic systems in which two equally high, upright stones with a door stone in between form the front of a chamber, which is covered with a sometimes huge capstone.
description
The structure consists of a large slab supported by four upright supporting stones about 1.2 m high. The large capstone protrudes over the front. It is believed that the chamber was originally covered by a cairn , although no evidence is found.
The chamber grave are located in the area ( English chambered tomb ) of Caerhun that Menhire of Caerhun and the chamber grave of Rhiw (100 m), the Menhire Bwlch y Ddeufaen and Cae Coch , several enclosures and cottage circles westward to the stone circle of Cerrig Pryfaid range. The area retained its importance during Roman times when the road from Caernarfon to Canovium Fort was built on the banks of the River Conwy.
Maen y Bardd is a Scheduled Monument .
Nearby is the Hillfort Caer Bach .
literature
- Vicki Cummings, Alasdair Whittle: Places of special virtue - megaliths in the Neolithic landscapes of Wales. Oxbow, Oxford 2004, ISBN 1-84217-108-9 , p. 180.
- Homer Sykes: Mysterious Britain - Fact and Folklore George Weidenfeld & Nicolson Ltd. 1993 ISBN 0-297-83196-8 p. 114
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Coordinates: 53 ° 13 ′ 41.1 ″ N , 3 ° 53 ′ 17 ″ W.