<< Our Photo Pages >> Garn Turne - Chambered Tomb in Wales in Pembrokeshire
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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Garn Turne Alternative Name: Carn Turne, Garn TarneCountry: Wales County: Pembrokeshire Type: Chambered Tomb
Nearest Town: Fishguard Nearest Village: St Dogwells
Map Ref: SM97922725 Landranger Map Number: 157
Latitude: 51.907036N Longitude: 4.93915W
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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SeeHafstone7 visited on 10th Mar 2022 - their rating: Cond: 3 Amb: 4 Access: 4 There is now easy access to this from the passing place/2 or 3 car space right by the tomb. The farmer has made a narrow way through the thick hedge and barbed wire, with a simple metal gate. Please ensure you secure the gate with the bailer twine as you enter and leave.
TheCaptain couldn't find on 5th Oct 2015 Despite there being a few places to park nearby, I could find no way into the relevant field to have a look at this interesting sounding site, which is not clearly marked on the maps.
Anne T saw from a distance on 23rd Aug 2014 - their rating: Access: 1 Burial chamber at Garn Turne Rocks, Pembrokeshire: (couldn't find anywhere to access this site): The final sites we wanted to see before hitting the motorway home to Northumberland were the burial chambers at Garn Turne. Having successfully located the field and the footpath nearest to the largest burial chamber, we parked in an extended passing place near the footpath. We met a couple of local ladies with their families picking blackberries in the hedgerows and chatted briefly, telling them where we were going; they didn’t seem to think there would be a problem with access.
Walking to 50 metres or so up the footpath to a gate in the field, we could see no access into the Garn Turne Enclosure. My husband hopped across the gate whilst I took photographs of the very curious cows in the adjacent field who’d come to see what we were up to!
From this footpath, the chamber appeared to be inaccessible – there seemed to be no gates whatsoever. When we looked at the Portal later in the day, there were lots of other photographs of this site, and we are left wondering how they accessed it. Other web sites mention squeezing through hedges, and I don’t like to do this without permission from the farmer. I had to be content with a photograph from a distance.
By way of compensation, we went to see Ogham and Latin inscribed stone at St. Dogwell’s Church (just marked as ‘Stone’ on the map, next to Sealyham Bridge).
However, there was a second chamber on the map, at approximate grid reference SM 98269 26566 (the UK Grid Finder’s images are shrouded in cloud, so can’t get a precise fix). We found the very overgrown footpath that took us closest to the chamber, only to be met by a very aggressive combine harvester driver, who forced us to reverse at least a quarter of a mile, pull over for him, then block our way. At this point we gave up and decided to head for home, only to catch up with said combine harvester and had to follow him at about 15 miles an hour for the next four or five miles (he refused to let us by at any available passing place).
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Average ratings for this site from all visit loggers: Access: 2.5
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