<< Our Photo Pages >> Morfa Bychan - Chambered Cairn in Wales in Carmarthenshire
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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Morfa BychanCountry: Wales County: Carmarthenshire Type: Chambered Cairn
Nearest Town: St Clears Nearest Village: Pendine
Map Ref: SN22130749
Latitude: 51.737816N Longitude: 4.577454W
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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Couplands visited on 28th Sep 2023 - their rating: Cond: 2 Amb: 5 Access: 2
ZTW visited on 28th Apr 2023 - their rating: Cond: 3 Amb: 5 Access: 3
Horatio visited on 21st Apr 2023 - their rating: Cond: 2 Amb: 4 Access: 2 Morfa Buchan D (as listed on Coflien site)
This is actually the first chamber you get to from off the coastal path high point. So this being the 1st of 4 and the most northerly on the escarpment. The first two chambers are close-ish together (like the next two) and then a slight bigger gap before the next pair of chambers. This chamber is the most intact and has a large capstone (1.5 x4m approx) at ground level which makes the actual chamber itself subterranean, it is supported (underpinned) by small slab boulders as orthostats with cairn material falling through these, the whole chamber is surrounded by cairn material and has what looks like possibly a narrow entrance passage wih a very small step down to allow access into the chamber proper which is about half metre high or so, its cramped. I guess most people just poke cameras and phones to get a photo of the inside (not me).
Once the fern and heather is in full bloom, this chamber could be missed, but it is very close to thebeginning of the start of the escarpment.
Lonan visited on 1st Jan 2022 - their rating: Cond: 4 Amb: 5 Access: 2
Penbron PERKYPUFFIN sem have visited here
Average ratings for this site from all visit loggers: Condition: 2.75 Ambience: 4.75 Access: 2.25
However, the archaeologists appear to have missed something...
The "prominent natural outcrop" called the Druid's Altar aligns with the three chambers I could identify and is plainly visible both from the valley below and from the church in "upper" Pendine about one mile away.
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