Portal Tomb by Hendre Waelod
The portal Tomb by Hendre Waelod (also Allor Moloch - ( German "Altar des Moloch" ) called) is located southwest of Llansanffraid Glan Conwy (Glan Conwy for short), in Clwyd in Wales . Hendre Waelod is from the Neolithic and stands on the western slopes of the hill of Bryniau, just 300 meters from the Conwy River. 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.
Some of the stones of the Portal Tomb on the eastern side have collapsed, so that the huge, wedge-shaped capstone about 3.0 meters long and one meter thick has slipped from the slender, about 1.5 meter high, remaining portal stones. The portal stones that indicate the former entrance to the southeast of the chamber are now integrated into a fence that separates a small wood from the willow. All traces of a covering hill or cairns have been lost over the years.
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.
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Coordinates: 53 ° 15 ′ 21.2 " N , 3 ° 48 ′ 39.2" W.