<< Our Photo Pages >> Tyn y Coed - Chambered Cairn in Wales in Denbighshire
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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Tyn y Coed Alternative Name: Tan-y-CoedCountry: Wales County: Denbighshire Type: Chambered Cairn
Nearest Town: Cynwyd Nearest Village: Rhydyglafes
Map Ref: SJ0476839603 Landranger Map Number: 125
Latitude: 52.945333N Longitude: 3.418691W
Condition:
5 | Perfect |
4 | Almost Perfect |
3 | Reasonable but with some damage |
2 | Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site |
1 | Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks |
0 | No data. |
-1 | Completely destroyed |
5 | Superb |
4 | Good |
3 | Ordinary |
2 | Not Good |
1 | Awful |
0 | No data. |
5 | Can be driven to, probably with disabled access |
4 | Short walk on a footpath |
3 | Requiring a bit more of a walk |
2 | A long walk |
1 | In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find |
0 | No data. |
5 | co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates |
4 | co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map |
3 | co-ordinates scaled from a bad map |
2 | co-ordinates of the nearest village |
1 | co-ordinates of the nearest town |
0 | no data |
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Marko visited on 25th Jan 2014 - their rating: Cond: 3 Amb: 3 Access: 4 Right by the side of the road!
Parking was easy and despite the heavy rain spent sometime there soaking (no pun intentended!!) in this atmospheric chamber.
TimPrevett have visited here
Its capstone is 3m long and is propped up, at one end, by small boulders, whilst at the W end it sits snuggly into a 30 foot long burial mound. Although the chamber has been destroyed and robbed, it is still quite recognisable for what it once was - a pre-historic burial site of the Neolithic Age.
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