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Re: St Lythans by Andy B on Tuesday, 23 January 2018

Severe erosion by cattle in 1992 lead to the exposure of sub-soil cairn material within the chamber and on the north side. This lead to the chance discovery, as surface finds, of a fragment of polished stone axe and several flint flakes – some retouched – by Toby Driver in 1992. These joined a fine leaf-shaped flint arrowhead, found independently in the same erosion feature, and placed in the National Museum Wales, Cardiff. The finds were published in Archaeologia Cambrensis, 1992, and constitute a significant addition to the poorly-recorded finds noted by Lukis in 1875. Following the discovery of these finds, conservation was carried out on the badly eroded tomb in the early 1990s with soil and turfs replaced to cover the exposed areas.

In the early 19th century it was called The Greyhound-bitch kennel and was used as an animal shelter. There is a tradition that the field in which the stones stand is cursed, and that nothing will grow there. The stones themselves were believed to grant any wish whispered to them on Hallowe’en. Another legend says that the wedge-shaped capstone spins three times each Midsummer’s Eve; this story fits with one of the chambered tomb’s Welsh names (Maes-y-Felin), which translates as ‘The Mill in the Meadow’. The same night all the stones are said to go bathing in the river.

Source:
https://tinkinswoodarchaeology.wordpress.com/2011/09/07/some-background-information-about-st-lythans-burial-chamber/

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