Penarth (chamber tomb)
Penarth is a chamber tomb ( English chambered tomb ) in a pasture, east of Aberdesach above Caernarfon Bay at Caernarfon in Gwynedd in Wales . The monument, located 100 m from the roadway, includes the collapsed remains of a portal tomb from the Neolithic Age (4400 to 2900 BC). 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.
The rectangular north-south oriented chamber is 1.52 m long and consists of three supporting stones and a capstone. The roughly rectangular 2.2 m long, 2.05 m wide and a maximum of 0.7 m thick capstone lies on a 0.75 m high stone which, together with reading stones, fills the center of the chamber. There are two side posts that are 1.2 m and 1.0 m high.
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Coordinates: 53 ° 2 ′ 1.7 " N , 4 ° 20 ′ 34.4" W.