Pipton

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Scheme of the Cotswold Severn Tomb

Pipton is a Cotswold Severn Tomb ( English Chambered Tomb , Welsh Mae beddrodau Hafren-Cotswold or Cotswold-Hafren ) in Aberllynfi on the River Wye , west of Three Cocks in Powys in Wales near the border with England .

Pipton was excavated in 1949 by Hubert Newman Savory (1911-2001). The excavations showed that the northeast-southwest oriented stone mound was trapezoidal, about 32.0 m long and 16.0 m near the northeast end and about 10.0 m wide in the south. The forecourt is a false door ( English false entrance ) width of 2.5 m, comprising two portal stones, one of which is 2.4 m high. This not atypical shape is u. a. at the Belas Knap , Capel Garmon , Stoney Littleton and Ty Isaf systems. The cairn was up to 2.0 m high.

Two side chambers have been identified within the mound. Chamber I is about 5.5 m from the portal and was entered from the northwest side. Chamber II was apparently a closed stone box on the same side. An inner curved wall runs over the cairn to the southwest end. The appearance of the Cairns is more impressive than the excavation results suggest. The main visible structure consists of the two large panels that form the portal to the northeast. There are only two more stones left in the hill, one on the southeast side, the other near the southwest end. There is a cavity in the mound between the portal and Chamber I and another cavity on the northwest side that marks the location of Chamber II.

To the east of Tree Cocksa is Little Lodge, another megalithic tomb .

literature

  • John XWP Corcoran: The Cotswold-Severn Group: 1. Distribution, Morphology and Artifacts. In: Thomas GE Powell , John XWP Corcoran, Frances Lynch, Jack G. Scott: Megalithic Inquiries in the West of Britain. Liverpool University Press, Liverpool 1969, pp. 13-72, here p. 61.
  • Timothy C. Darvill: The megalithic chambered tombs of the Cotswold-Severn Region. An assessment of certain architectural elements and their relation to ritual practice and Neolithic Society (= Vorda Research Series. 5). Vorda, Highworth 1982, ISBN 0-907246-04-4 .
  • Timothy Darvill: Long barrows of the Cotswolds and surrounding Areas. Tempus, Stroud 2004, ISBN 0-7524-2907-8 .

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Coordinates: 52 ° 1 ′ 39.5 ″  N , 3 ° 13 ′ 30.6 ″  W.