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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Pentre Ifan Alternative Name: Coetan Arthur; Arthur's Quoit
Country: Wales County: Pembrokeshire Type: Portal Tomb
Nearest Town: Newport  Nearest Village: Brynberian
Map Ref: SN09943702  Landranger Map Number: 145
Latitude: 51.999005N  Longitude: 4.770042W
Condition:
5Perfect
4Almost Perfect
3Reasonable but with some damage
2Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
0No data.
-1Completely destroyed
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5Superb
4Good
3Ordinary
2Not Good
1Awful
0No data.
 4 Access:
5Can be driven to, probably with disabled access
4Short walk on a footpath
3Requiring a bit more of a walk
2A long walk
1In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find
0No data.
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5co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates
4co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map
3co-ordinates scaled from a bad map
2co-ordinates of the nearest village
1co-ordinates of the nearest town
0no data
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AufderSuche visited on 8th Dec 2024 - their rating: Cond: 4 Amb: 5 Access: 4

PeterJMayhew visited on 4th Sep 2024 - their rating: Cond: 5 Amb: 5 Access: 5 A narrow country road takes you to within 100 meters of this site. There is parking for about 8 cars in a layby. Because of the popularity of the site this is not always sufficient! There is an information board with artwork. You can walk around the site and touch the stones. The capstone is almost unbelievably perched on the tips of the uprights as if hovering in midair.....the whole vision is quite astonishing.

eddie304 visited on 10th Jun 2024 - their rating: Cond: 4 Amb: 4 Access: 4 Not been here since I was a teenager. I remember driving up the final bit of road with grass rubbing the underside of my mini. Parking is a lot easier now too. Even so not many there, and I had forgotten the open view to the sea. Just a great location. I have always wondered about some of the large stones you pass on the path to the monument. A couple are big enough to be a capstone for a smaller tome. Plus the raised area as you approach the stones from the foot path. Definitely not part of the original mound that you can trace down hill of the stones and portal area.

Couplands visited on 29th Sep 2023 - their rating: Cond: 2 Amb: 4 Access: 4

Chrus visited on 1st Oct 2022 - their rating: Cond: 4 Amb: 5 Access: 4

sba_dk visited on 25th Aug 2022 - their rating: Cond: 5 Amb: 5 Access: 4

Chappers60 visited on 19th Jul 2022 - their rating: Cond: 4 Amb: 4 Access: 4

Orcinus visited on 28th Apr 2021 - their rating: Cond: 4 Amb: 4 Access: 4 Spectacular monument

pammyamf visited on 1st Apr 2021 - their rating: Cond: 5 Amb: 4 Access: 4

Richard13 visited on 15th Jul 2020 - their rating: Cond: 4 Amb: 5 Access: 4

bishop_pam visited on 26th Feb 2020 - their rating: Cond: 5 Amb: 5 Access: 4

30081978 visited on 1st May 2019 - their rating: Cond: 4 Amb: 4 Access: 4

Aluta visited on 21st Sep 2018 - their rating: Cond: 5 Amb: 4 Access: 5 Had always wanted to see it and was delighted to get there. I was most impressed with the views of the mountain outcroppings from there. Surely its placement must have had something to do with that.

CP2002 visited on 1st Aug 2018 - their rating: Cond: 5 Amb: 5 Access: 4

ForestWalker visited on 20th Jul 2018 - their rating: Cond: 4 Amb: 5 Access: 4 This is my favourite site in Wales and it was a perfect one to visit with my two sons, not least of all because it is situated at the top of a slope - excellent for rolling down. The stones themselves make an impressive sight against the surrounding farmland. The path to reach the site is relatively flat.

luaucow visited on 1st Apr 2018 - their rating: Amb: 4 Access: 4

trystan_hughes visited on 30th May 2015 - their rating: Cond: 4 Amb: 4 Access: 4

ChasDrown visited on 20th May 2015 - their rating: Cond: 4 Amb: 4 Access: 4

markhewins visited on 30th Sep 2014 Iconic day!

Anne T visited on 23rd Aug 2014 - their rating: Cond: 3 Amb: 5 Access: 4 Pentre Ifan, Pembrokeshire: I was particularly excited to go to the site, as I’d seen many photographs and paintings of Pentre Ifan during our brief visit to Pembrokeshire, together with photographs on the Portal. I was unprepared for the sheer number of visitors who came to see this spectacular burial chamber. However, everyone seemed to respect others need to take photographs and kept out of each other’s way, which was nice. We also got into conversation with a Japanese lady about how they had raised the cap stone. I was truly amazed at how the cap stone balances on the pointed tips of just three uprights. All around are larger stones which may have been part of the structure in the past. The views over to Newport sands and the sea are wonderful. I would like to go back to the site at a quieter time and just sit and absorb it.

davel visited on 7th Feb 2013 - their rating: Cond: 4 Amb: 5 Access: 4

BolshieBoris visited on 1st Sep 2011 - their rating: Cond: 4 Amb: 5 Access: 4

druid5 visited on 29th Aug 2011 - their rating: Cond: 4 Amb: 5 Access: 4 I love this site. This is the second time I have visited. I am doing an art course at present and have painted Pentre Ifan in mixed media which was recently displayed in an exhibition in Shrewsbury by The Marches Art Group of which I am a member.

woodini254 visited on 28th Dec 2010 - their rating: Cond: 5 Amb: 5 Access: 5 This a superb burial chamber and is accessible via a lay by and a very short walk to the site. Well worth visiting.

rhodct visited on 6th Apr 2009 - their rating: Cond: 4 Amb: 4 Access: 4

SteveC visited on 21st Sep 2007 - their rating: Cond: 3 Amb: 4 Access: 4

jeffrep visited on 24th Sep 2005 - their rating: Cond: 4 Amb: 5 Access: 4

Wernddofn visited We often visit Pentre Ifan...a very special place.

SimonBlackmore visited - their rating: Cond: 4 Amb: 5 Access: 5

Jimwithnoname visited - their rating: Cond: 5 Amb: 4 Access: 4 A beautiful site and constantly having visitors.

mbfrezon visited - their rating: Amb: 5 Access: 4 Stunning. A large group was coming out as I went in and I was so glad to be alone there and to be able to spend my time looking at the site in peace. I appreciated that the entrance and signage were low key and minimal.

JCBH visited - their rating: Cond: 3 Amb: 5 Access: 3 Pentre Ifan. Visited many times.

KieKa visited - their rating: Cond: 4 Amb: 5 Access: 4

Penbron Humbucker Tonnox SandyG Bladup DrewParsons paulcall PAB rldixon Arjessa Serenstar Serenstar mrcrow have visited here

Average ratings for this site from all visit loggers: Condition: 4.1 Ambience: 4.58 Access: 4.1

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Pentre Ifan submitted by Horatio : The beautiful Pentre Ifan one I took after I'd woken up for the second time. I just needed to get out yesterday (Monday) and see some blue sky, you don't get that much in Wales in the winter months. Knowing that Gwal-y-Filiast is pretty much out of bounds at the moment due to fallen trees, I headed over here, armed with camera, flask, sandwiches, sit mat, drum(s) and tarpaulin to lay stuff on. I k... (Vote or comment on this photo)
One of the most spectacular and famous monuments of its type, it consists of a tilted capstone perched on three uprights. A blocking stone obstructs the doorway and a semi-circular forecourt is found at the southern end. Originally covered by a huge long mound - traces of possible kerbstones can still be found on site.

Located 4km east of Newport, Pembrokeshire on a public footpath. This monument is recorded as Coflein NPRN 101450, which tells us: " Pentre Ifan is perhaps the finest surviving Neolithic tomb in Wales and forms one of a group of Portal Dolmens built around the tributaries of the Nevern Valley approximately 6,000 years ago".

The Journal of Antiquities also includes an entry for Pentre Ifan, Pembrokeshire, Wales, which includes background information, a photograph, brief details of excavations in 1936/37 and 1958/59, plus an 1809 drawing by Richard Colt.
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Pentre Ifan submitted by Lemmy : Pentre Ifan photo taken on the 28th of April 2025 (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Pentre Ifan submitted by Horatio : Well, after 40 years of not having done any type of art, I happened to be on a corporate team building excercise in January that involved painting. After this afternoon of throwing paints around it got me thinking about art. I take photos of stones, surely it can't be that difficult to draw them, here's my attempt at one of my local favourites, Pentre Ifan. My other being Gwal-y-Filiast which I... (1 comment - Vote or comment on this photo)

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Pentre Ifan submitted by Horatio : The view on approach to Pentre Ifan from the parking layby. So, I just needed to get out yesterday (Monday) and see some blue sky, don't get that much in Wales in the winter months. Knowing that Gwal-y-Filiast is pretty much out of bounds at the moment due to fallen trees, I headed over here, armed with camera, flask, sandwiches, sit mat, drum(s) and tarpaulin to lay stuff on. I knew it would... (2 comments - Vote or comment on this photo)

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Pentre Ifan submitted by PeterJMayhew : 4th September 2024

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Pentre Ifan submitted by Jimwithnoname : This site was once too far away to visit but now in later years I have the pleasure of visiting almost every year.

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Pentre Ifan submitted by Horatio : Catching the last rays this week (2 comments)

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Pentre Ifan submitted by Horatio : The approach view as seen by millions.

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Pentre Ifan submitted by Horatio : You know when you're pretty close to passing possibly the most iconic burial chamber in Wales. I just can't stop myself from not stopping. (3 comments)

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Pentre Ifan submitted by eddie304 : View of the portal. A clear arc of stones define the horned area. Plus the view down hill, with the sea visible over the left of the cap stone.

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Pentre Ifan submitted by Horatio : In this view you can make out the shape and extent of the cairn that made up the chamber (just in front of the fence) this was 36m long by 17m wide and it would've needed a lot of stones to make the mound (cairn). (1 comment)

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Pentre Ifan submitted by Horatio : I can never tire of my local burial chamber. Never shoot in towards the sun they say but from this angle it really shows that floating 16 ton capstone! It might be a bit selfish of me, but when I have this all to myself with a low or setting sun, it's a truly magical place. (2 comments)

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Pentre Ifan submitted by Horatio : A different angle of Wales' famous landmark

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Pentre Ifan submitted by DeborahWales : Pentre Ifan looking to Carnedd Meibion Owen.

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Pentre Ifan submitted by Antonine : 2008

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Pentre Ifan submitted by Antonine : Photo taken in 2008

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Pentre Ifan Virtual Tour from CADW by Andy B on Tuesday, 08 November 2022
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Virtual Tour from CADW here

https://cadw.gov.wales/visit/whats-on/virtual-visits/virtual-visits-neolithic-tombs
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Re: Pentre Ifan, by Anonymous on Tuesday, 30 June 2020
G'day all,
The assertion that Pentre Ifan was originally a huge mound deserves questioning; to re-quote early archaeologists guesstimates has its traps. Can someone tell me the basis for the idea please, see Google Earth.
Neil L. Thomas, Melbourne, Australia
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Re: Pentre Ifan by Anonymous on Thursday, 09 May 2019
My wife and I just spent a week staying in a cottage near the Preseli Hills and got to see Pentre Ifan along with several other ancient structures in the region. If you're interested, the place we stayed was here:
Rose Hill Cottage
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Pentre Ifan vandalised by bat400 on Thursday, 18 October 2018
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Aluta posted:

Designs have been painted on stones at Pentre Ifan. Pictures here on Facebook.
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    Re: Pentre Ifan vandalised by Runemage on Friday, 19 October 2018
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    Is it paint or something like a permanent marker?

    Reason for asking is, aside from needing different removal strategies, painting on a vertical uneven surface can be quite difficult as the paint has to be thick enough not to run yet malleable enough to produce quite a uniform curved line or pattern.
    I can't zoom in on those pictures but they look too neat to have been be painted on.

    Maybe we should have sentences like the ones in Thailand? https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6293727/Backpacker-Liverpool-faces-TEN-YEARS-Thai-prison-spraying-Scouse-Lee-fortress.html
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Re: Pentre Ifan by Arjessa on Thursday, 16 February 2017
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Visited here in 1992 - Amazing! There was a Rainbow visible for 20 mins as we drove along the roads towards it, that only faded once I got there and was able to take a photo. A very strong sense of power could be felt, and as I approached all the horses in the village below began to neigh - loudly! A Raven sat perched above the gate.........and with thoughts of ancient myths, I sensed the power and stated that I only wanted a photograph, and it 'let me pass'........unforgettable experience. My best two photos are already up on this site.
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Heathery livrocky land: rethinking the stones of Neolithic Pembrokeshire by Andy B on Thursday, 09 February 2017
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What is cultural, what is natural? On encountering the landscapes of upland Wales for the first time, early settlers could be forgiven for thinking that the hills were marked by the mounds and monuments of earlier inhabitants – perhaps a race of gods or giants.

In a major new volume on the archaeology of Pembrokeshire, Tim Darvill argues that monument typologies do not help us understand how people viewed rocks and the landscape in the past. We need to think less like archaeologists and start asking questions about the meaning of stone and what these monuments might have signified to the people who built them. Chris Catling takes up the challenge:

Tim Darvill and Geoff Wainwright have been working on their SPACES project, mapping prehistoric monuments in the Strumble to Preseli landscapes of North Pembrokeshire, since 2001. Their recent joint paper in the newly published Pembrokeshire County History volume provides an up-to-date account of their latest thinking about such sites, covering a county that is now known, thanks to their work, to be well endowed with megalithic monuments, including dolmens and standing stones.

While presenting their overview at the 2016 Pembrokeshire Archaeology Day, Tim Darvill broke off from his prepared presentation to issue a wake-up call to archaeologists wedded to taxonomy. ‘We have reached the limit of what we can learn by forcing these sites into monument typologies based on formal characteristics, and we must now try to make a leap of imagination and understand what these monuments might have meant to the people who built them’, he said, adding: ‘I come not to praise monument typologies but to bury them’, or words to that effect. This was archaeological heresy (even more shocking from the author of the Concise Oxford Dictionary of Archaeology, which is full of formal typological definitions and descriptions), but the audience at Pembrokeshire College in Haverfordwest loved it.

Tim went on argue that nobody in the past said: ‘OK, folks, let’s build a portal dolmen’. Monuments were not built to a strict template; there was no blueprint in the modern sense, nor any Platonic ideal to which everyone aspired. Instead, individual communities built individual monuments, similar but different; sometimes bigger and better than those made by others; always improvised according to local materials, resources, and circumstances.

Read more at Current Archaeology
https://www.archaeology.co.uk/articles/features/heathery-livrocky-land-rethinking-the-stones-of-neolithic-pembrokeshire.htm
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Pembrokeshire County History Vol 1: Prehistoric, Roman and Early Medieval by Andy B on Thursday, 09 February 2017
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The most important book in years on the history of Pembrokeshire has been published.

Volume I of the Pembrokeshire County History series entitled ‘Prehistoric, Roman and Early Medieval Pembrokeshire’ includes chapters on Palaeolithic and Mesolithic hunter-gatherers, the Neolithic and Bronze Age and Roman and Early Medieval Pembrokeshire.

The authors are all experts in their fields and include Elizabeth Walker, Timothy Darvill, Geoff Wainwright, Ken Murphy and Heather James.

The book is superbly produced, hard back and consists of 552 pages including coloured illustrations and high-quality maps.

It has been published by the Pembrokeshire County History Trust which was established in 1974 to produce a complete history of the county.

Although it is Volume I, the book is also the last in the series since Volumes II, III and IV covering the period 1093-1974 have already appeared.

Trust Chairman, Dr Simon Hancock said: “This is a high quality volume in terms of both content and presentation and there is sure to be keen demand from anyone interested in the early history of Pembrokeshire whether local residents or the archaeology departments of universities across the country.

“So many people have worked so hard to make the volume a reality. I and my fellow trustees are most grateful to them.”

More from the Milford Mercury
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The essence of the dolmen: the architecture of megalithic construction by Andy B on Monday, 21 November 2016
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Vicki Cummings and Colin Richards write: This paper discusses a form of Neolithic monument found in Ireland and western Britain. We argue that these are a particular type of monument found specifically in Britain and Ireland. It is argued that ‘dolmens’ are a distinctive type of monument, where the key characteristic is the use of enormous capstones which were lifted up and displayed on smaller upright supporters. These monuments were not built in order to create a chamber area, but were displays of important stones and astonishing feats of engineering.

Considerable social prestige could be gained or lost through the construction of these monuments, and the paper details some examples which clearly ended in disaster.

Finally, this paper suggests that dolmen construction originated in France, amongst communities who had a long tradition of building with big stones. The idea that these monuments were part of a Neolithic package introduced into Britain some time around 4000 BC is also challenged.

In particular we describe some of the key elements of a larger and on-going research project which is investigating the construction of these monuments. The project, entitled ‘Building the Great Dolmens’, is exploring the construction of dolmens in a variety of different ways, including through excavation. This paper outlines the underlying ideas behind the project and some preliminary observations.

Read here:
https://www.academia.edu/10011202/ (Free registration required)

From Préhistoires Méditerranéennes - Functions, uses and representations of space in the monumental graves of Neolithic Europe

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Pentre Ifan: east or west? The origins of monumentality in Wales and western Britain by Andy B on Wednesday, 18 February 2015
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Pentre Ifan: east or west? The origins of monumentality in Wales and western Britain by Cummings, V. and Whittle, A. 2005.

The origins of monumentality in Wales and western Britain
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Re: Pentre Ifan by sem on Wednesday, 02 July 2014
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I visited a couple of weeks ago (first time in about 5yrs) and was amazed at what should have been so obvious then, and even more amazed that no-one seems to have noticed it! The apex stone of the triangle of uprights has a manmade "cutaway" where it meets the capstone that allows a view of somewhere.
Anyone know anything?
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Discover Pentre Ifan, Tue 24th July by Andy B on Wednesday, 18 July 2012
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County: Pembrokeshire

Tue 24 July; 14.00

The ancient burial chamber of Pentre Ifan has intrigued people for centuries. Learn about its secrets and how it fits into the wider landscape.

Location: Pentre Ifan Burial Chamber, Brynberian, Near Newport. Signposted off the A487 north of Newport Pembs

Org: Pembrokeshire Coast National Park Authority
Name: Rhonwen Owen
Tel: 01239 891319
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.castellhenllys.com

Part of the Festival of British Archaeology 2012
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Damage to Pentre Ifan Jan 2012 by Anonymous on Wednesday, 18 January 2012
Jut seen this today

http://www.growsonyou.com/photo/slideshow/231780-pentre-ifan/all

can someone please report these idiots
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Discovering Pentre Ifan, Tue 19 & Tue 26 July by Andy B on Sunday, 19 June 2011
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Discovering Pentre Ifan

Tue 19 & Tue 26 July 14.00–15.00

This ancient monument to the dead has intrigued people for centuries. Discover its secrets and how it fits into the surrounding landscape. Free.

Location: Pentre Ifan Burial Chamber, Brynberian SA41. Follow signs for “burial chamber” signposted off the A487 north of Newport, Pembrokeshire

Org: Pembrokeshire Coast National Park Authority
Name: Rhonwen Owen
Tel: 01239 891319
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.pembrokeshirecoast.org

Part of the Festival of British Archaeology 2011
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Pentre Ifan Street View by SteveDut on Saturday, 27 March 2010
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Survey undertaken near Pentre Ifan, during Autumn 2009 by Robin Heath by Andy B on Monday, 08 February 2010
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cerrig wrote:
http://skyandlandscape.com/pdf/Maen%20Corlan%20Samson.pdf
This may be of interest to Pentre Ifan fans. Some new research.
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Re: Pentre Ifan by coldrum on Monday, 11 January 2010
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Coflein record.

http://www.coflein.gov.uk/en/site/101450/details/PENTRE+IFAN+CHAMBERED+TOMB%2C+NEAR+NEVERN/
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Re: Pentre Ifan by Anonymous on Friday, 17 October 2008
Hi! im doing a school project on the Pentre Ifan.I was wondering about something.What was it created for?What was it made of?how was it made& how did it the people who made it get it on top of each other?
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Pentre Ifan by coldrum on Friday, 16 May 2008
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http://www.the-cauldron.fsnet.co.uk/THE%20WOMB%20OF%20CERIDWEN.htm
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Re: Pentre Ifan by coldrum on Tuesday, 10 July 2007
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http://www.cadw.wales.gov.uk/default.asp?id=6&PlaceID=109
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Re: Pentre Ifan by whiteone on Thursday, 10 August 2006
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I am a dowser with some interest in earth energies. I paid a brief visited to this site in July while on family holiday. These are my comments on what I found for what they are worth.

Given the layout of the site with the principle axis of the cap stone running roughly N-S and the curved 'entrance' facing south, I found weak energy line running E-W passing through the three 'entrance' stones supporting the cap at the south end. I also found a somewhat more energetic line running south from the centre stone of the three above. In front of the most easterly of these three was an energy point source (as distinct from a sink) of a very high magnitude and not a very confortable place to be. As I continued around the back (north) side and under the cap stone I found the most surpising thing of all - that being precisely nothing. There was no continuation of the N-S line from the front, no echos of the E-W line and no human energy remnants where they might be expected; nothing. All the energy that was active that day was within the area of the dished entrance way as if focused there. I did not have time study the site further and my knowledge of dolmems is poor so I can only report what I found but there are two words in the previous sentence that give a clue as to what I am thinking.

I arrived at the site with no anticipations and I left the site with no sense of it having been a burial chamber so what else those energies where telling me is very tantelising indeed. Any helpful views would be appreciated.
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    Re: Pentre Ifan by AngieLake on Thursday, 10 August 2006
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    Hi Whiteone. I dowsed this site in 2002, and found very interesting ritual movement patterns in the forecourt. If you'd like to see the plan I can post it to you. They are fairly typical of most other sites of this nature. (contact me on private site page)
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Work at Pentre Ifan Burial Chamber 30/11/04 by Andy B on Thursday, 07 April 2005
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Work to make Pentre Ifan Burial Chamber accessible to more visitors has recently been undertaken. The path to the monument has been improved; it is now wider and has passing places. The surface is firm and the gradient has been reduced. It is possible to park in the lane close to the monument.

If you need more information about visiting the site, please contact Site Operations staff at Cadw, telephone 01443 336 104.

Pentre Ifan – the name means 'the homestead of Ifan' – is an impressive and atmospheric site near Newport in Pembrokeshire. In 1884 it was the first monument in Britain to become a Scheduled Ancient Monument, on the recommendation of General Pitt Rivers. Original sketches from that period are shown on the right.

The massive stones would have contained a chamber where the remains of the dead – probably several generations of a family group – could be placed. The walls would have been completed with dry-stone walling, and the whole covered with cobbles. Building the structure would have been a huge communal effort – the capstone weighs over 16 tons and the complete structure was 36m (120ft) long. When the site was excavated, no human remains were found, though some pieces of pottery and flint were recovered.

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