Tan y Muriau
Tan y Muriau is a megalithic complex at Rhiw in Gwynedd on the tip of the Lleyn Peninsula in Wales . The Long Cairn is 125 m high on a slope near Mynydd Rhiw and has two chambers that were originally covered by a stone mound over 100 m long .
The main chamber at the northwest end clearly gives the impression of a portal dolmen with four bearing stones and an impressive capstone. Behind it lies the remainder of a smaller lateral chamber consisting of two supporting stones and a thin capstone. In 1871 J. G. Williams noticed the remainder of another chamber at the southeast end, and at the beginning of the 20th century W. G. Grimes still registered large stones at that end of the hill. A single large stone can be what remains of this chamber. The facility has not yet been excavated.
Tan y Muriau is not an isolated Cotswold Severn Tomb . There are about 130 monuments of this type. They are mainly found on the Severn . But there is also a group in southern Wales and individual specimens in northern Wales. These plants were built around 3500 BC. Built in BC. Welsh historian Frances Lynch has pointed out that there is an indentation in the hill at Tan y Muriau behind the main chamber. This may indicate that the facility was originally built in two stages. This view is supported by Dyffryn Ardudwy's multiphase investment .
It is now recognized that the portal dolmens were built at the beginning of the Neolithic in the centuries after 4000 BC. Were erected. They can be found in the Channel Islands , in Cornwall and on both sides of the Irish Sea , including Ireland , but not on the Isle of Man . The fact that the Portal Dolmens of Wales and Ireland are very similar indicates a shared religious tradition. It is unusual that in Wales there are apparently several portal tombs in the common long hill.
The Tomb Tyn Fron portal and the Llwynfor facility are nearby .
See also
literature
- Julian Heath: Ancient Echoes - the early history of a Welsh peninsula Gwalch 2006 ISBN 1845270932
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Coordinates: 52 ° 49 ′ 37.1 ″ N , 4 ° 36 ′ 58.9 ″ W.