Ystum Cegid Isaf
The Passage Tomb of Ystum Cegid Isaf (also known as "Coetan Arthur") is south of Garndolbenmaen and north of Criccieth on the Lleyn Peninsula in Gwynedd in Wales . Not to be confused with Arthur's Quoit and Carreg Coetan Arthur , both in Pembrokeshire .
Ystum Cegid Isaf is now integrated into a dry stone wall. The trapezoidal ceiling plate of the approximately 1.8 m high chamber, which was once supported by five supporting stones, measures around 4.5 × 3.3 m. The capstone lies on the four remaining bearing stones. A broken stone nearby appears to have been the fifth bearing stone. The chamber was accessed from the north through a passage from which no stones have been preserved.
In 1769, when the monument was drawn by Joeph Farrington (1747–1821), there was a second capstone above the approximately 3.0 m long corridor.
As far as we know, no archaeological digs have taken place on the site, but the location was recorded early on in an overview of ancient monuments. More recently, Francies Lynch has produced a report on these data which was published in Archaeologia Cambrensis 1999.
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. 121.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Francies Lynch: A Fresh Look at Ystum Cegid ISAF megalithic tomb (Caern.). In: Archaeologia Cambrensis. Vol. 148, 1999, pp. 207-213.
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Coordinates: 52 ° 56 '53.4 " N , 4 ° 14' 8.5" W.