The Altar (Wales)
The Altar (also called Colston) is a damaged chamber tomb ( English Chambered tomb ). It is near the Afon Anghof (river) south of the hamlet of Little Newcastle, at Fishguard in Pembrokeshire , Wales .
The collapsed burial chamber lies on a field border. It has a small rectangular capstone measuring 2.1 × 1.8 × 0.6 m that rests on three upright stones. The remains indicate a cairn about 30.0 m in diameter.
Two other burial chambers are said to have been here, but the only other stones mentioned in 1966 were reading stones and were probably related to clearing fields.
literature
- Vicki Cummings, Alasdair Whittle: Places of special virtue. Megaliths in the Neolithic landscapes of Wales. Oxbow, Oxford 2004, ISBN 1-84217-108-9 .
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Coordinates: 51 ° 54'53.3 " N , 4 ° 56'2.9" W.