<< Our Photo Pages >> Tyddyn Bleiddyn - Chambered Cairn in Wales in Denbighshire
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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Tyddyn BleiddynCountry: Wales County: Denbighshire Type: Chambered Cairn
Nearest Town: Bodelwyddan
Map Ref: SJ00727246
Latitude: 53.239852N Longitude: 3.489073W
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 |
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-1 | Completely destroyed |
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4 | Good |
3 | Ordinary |
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1 | Awful |
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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 |
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5 | co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates |
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3 | co-ordinates scaled from a bad map |
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Remains of a substantial chambered cairn, some 80 feet long, 35 feet wide and up to 2 to 3 feet tall. Plenty of small cairn stones remain embanking two chambers.
Access is through a gate immediately to the north; we went to request permission to visit from the nearest property, Ysgubor Newydd. No one was around, but on entering the field, felt that the farm higher to the east could well have been the one to seek permission from.
The walls on the west side Ysgubor Newydd, around the corner, make for interesting viewing. One can not help feel a high degree of certainty that the stones capping the walls must be cairn material. They are heavily weathered - several inches deep - meaning millenia, not centuries of erosion. There is one spectacular crystaline lump on the wall too.
Parking is tight. Space for one vehicle only parked as near as possible into the hedge, with great consideration.
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