Parc-y-Cromlech

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Parc-y-Cromlech

The Wedge Tomb Parc-y-Cromlech (also Penrhiw Dolmen or Penrhiw called) is located northwest of Goodwick in Fishguard in Pembrokeshire in Wales . Wedge Tombs ( German  "wedge tombs" ), formerly "wedge-shaped gallery grave" called, are seamless, mostly unarticulated megaliths of the late Neolithic and early Bronze Age to the British Isles .

Schematic sketch of Wedge Tomb using Iceland as an example
Parc-y-Cromlech

The remains of the Neolithic Wedge Tombs, of which there are only about 20 in Cornwall and Wales, but 50 in the Isles of Scilly and currently 569 in Ireland , are noteworthy despite the low height characteristic of the type. At Parc-y-Cromlech, a large capstone still rests on three supporting stones.

literature

  • Vicki Cummings, Alasdair Whittle: Places of special virtue - megaliths in the Neolithic landscapes of Wales. Oxbow, Oxford 2004, ISBN 1842171089 , p. 103.

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Coordinates: 52 ° 0 ′ 42 "  N , 4 ° 59 ′ 57"  W.