<< Our Photo Pages >> Cae'rarfau - Chambered Tomb in Wales in Mid Glamorgan
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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Cae'rarfauCountry: Wales County: Mid Glamorgan Type: Chambered Tomb
Nearest Town: Caerphilly Nearest Village: Creigiau
Map Ref: ST0772582144
Latitude: 51.530637N Longitude: 3.33164W
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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Average ratings for this site from all visit loggers: Condition: 2.5 Ambience: 3 Access: 4
0.75 km Northwest of Creigiau, Mid Glamorgan. A small, damaged chamber 2m by 2m stands against a field wall that partly supports it. No traces of a mound are now visible but apparently the chamber once stood at the Northern end of a long mound (Lukis, 1875).
The side slabs of this chamber are small, irregularly shaped and converge toward the entrance, making recovery of an axis azimuth very difficult. It is orientated very close to due North and faces a low hill near Upper Church Village 4.8 km away. The elevation of 1°.3 gives a declination of +39°.4. This is well outside the range of the Sun or Moon and since the declination is greater than the co-latitude of the site (38°.47) the stars in this direction are circumpolar, although no bright stars are indicated.
There is some more information and a photo on Martin Powell's site.
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