The Gop
The Gop (also Gop Cairn , Cop y Goleuni or Gop Hill - Coparleni in Welsh ) is a prehistoric hill monument within the Clwydian Range northwest of Trelawnyd in Flintshire in Wales . It is the second largest Neolithic hill in Great Britain after Silbury Hill in Wiltshire . Excavations revealed prehistoric remains, both in the caves and in the mound.
The Gop is a 12.0 m high Neolithic, between 4000 and 3000 BC. Dated oval cairn about 100 × 68 m. It is located on the hill 247 meters high Gop, a limestone - digestion lie on its side, the GOP Caves (caves). Its destination is unknown. It was examined by Boyd Dawkins in 1886 and 1887 and again in 1901. A shaft and two tunnels have been dug, but the excavations have not revealed any underground chambers or burial sites. Only the bones of horses and oxen were among many arrowheads from flint found. The multitude of arrowheads on the hill led to the fact that it was called Bryn-y-Saethau ( German "Hill of Arrows" ) by the locals . There is evidence that there was a considerable amount of stone on the hill. This could indicate that it was used as a hill fort .
Nearby are the Gop Caves, in which 14 Neolithic skeletons and late Neolithic artifacts were found.
See also
literature
- Alastair Whittle: Sacred mound, holy rings: Silbury Hill and the West Kennet Palisade enclosures, a later Neolithic complex in north Wiltshire. Oxbow monograph, 74, Oxbow Books, Oxford, 1997.
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Coordinates: 53 ° 18 ′ 37.4 " N , 3 ° 22 ′ 20.5" W.