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<< Our Photo Pages >> Parc Bach - Chambered Tomb in Wales in Gwynedd
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Submitted by TimPrevett on Sunday, 15 April 2007 Page Views: 3405
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Wales
Site Name: Parc Bach Country: Wales
NOTE: This site is 0.9 km away from the location you searched for.
County: Gwynedd Type: Chambered Tomb
Nearest Town: Llanberis
Map Ref: SH5846359778
Latitude: 53.116344N Longitude: 4.116232W
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 |
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Ambience:| 5 | Superb | | 4 | Good | | 3 | Ordinary | | 2 | Not Good | | 1 | Awful | | 0 | No data. |
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Access:| 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. |
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Accuracy:| 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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Chambered Tomb in Gwynedd. I wrote while away, "When approaching Dolbadarn Castle, my stones radar went into action, spotting a stone atop a higher wooded outcrop; a detour on the way back to the car to investigate was imperative. To me, this looks like the remains of a Neolithic Chambered Tomb, with entrance stones, and inner chamber.
I suspect either a completely misinterpreted group of stones from another historical period, a fortuitous arrangement of natural stones, or most likely, a folly construction from a landowner who liked ancient looking stones (though they usually went for the very structural looking dolmens). I am intrigued."
The Coflein entry is equally uncertain, "A peculiar 'megalithic' structure set on a low hillock overlooking and to the W of Dolbadarn Castle.It is primarily defined by two large orthostatic slabs set parallel to each other some 3m apart forming two sides of a square structure which has low pillars at each corner. Contiguous with the NE corner pillar is a larger 2m high squarish 'standing stone'".
There have been repeated fires within the structure and considerable damage to the location. (My visit 10/04/07).
Note: Visiting Dolbadarn Castle, this uncertain but reasonably convincing group of stones was happened upon. Is this a little known Neolithic Tomb?
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 Parc Bach submitted by TimPrevett
Another stone, part of this apparent chamber tomb complex.
 Parc Bach submitted by TimPrevett
Looking south east across the apparent tomb.
 Parc Bach submitted by TimPrevett
Looking north across the apparent tomb.
 Parc Bach submitted by TimPrevett
It was this glimpse of a 'standing stone' on going to visit Dolbadarn Castle, which alerted me to visit the location on the way back.
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Re: Parc Bach (Score: 1)
by darrenmparr on Tuesday, 17 April 2007
(User Info | Send a Message) | | Looks very similar to the Portugese Dolmens I assisted in excavating last year. Excellent find, well spotted ST! | [ Reply to This ]
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