Megalithic Portal: Latest from South Glamorgan, Wales

Dinas Powys hillfort

GEdge — Fri, 18 Sep 2026 11:18:49 GMT

]]>Dinas Powys promontory hillfort in the Vale of Glamorgan. Seems to be an overlooked site as it's completely covered in trees and is not a large site . In use pre Roman in its first phase of development to early medieval post Roman in its latter stages.

St Brigid's Well (St Bride's)

Supersequin — Sun, 12 Jul 2026 12:56:56 GMT

]]>Holy Well or Sacred Spring in South Glamorgan

Tinkinswood outliers

TheCaptain — Sat, 27 Apr 2024 15:17:33 GMT

]]>There are many large slabs of stone lurking in the various hedges of the area, some suspiciously placed in heaps, suggesting burial chambers.

Tinkinswood avenue

TheCaptain — Sat, 27 Apr 2024 15:04:21 GMT

]]>Possible stone row / alignment / avenue to the south of the main Tinkinswood burial chamber.

Tinkinswood standing stones

TheCaptain — Sat, 27 Apr 2024 14:50:24 GMT

]]>To the southeast of the main Tinkinswood tomb, at the gateway used to get from one field into that which the main chamber lives in, are a couple of fairly large standing stones.

Tinkinswood quarry

TheCaptain — Sat, 27 Apr 2024 14:39:50 GMT

]]>Possible "quarry" site from which the large slabs of rock used in the construction of Tinkinswood chamber were taken.

Tinkinswood 2

TheCaptain — Sat, 27 Apr 2024 14:32:08 GMT

]]>In the paddock to the southeast of the main Tinkinswood longbarrow is what looks to be the remains of another burial chamber, with a fallen dolmen type of structure, with other stones making out what could have been other chamber stones, or some sort of entrance. Looking carefully and the remains of a mound can be made out.

Ffos-yr-Haidal 1, Mynydd Eglwysilan

Andy B — Wed, 06 Sep 2023 17:36:41 GMT

]]>A man who filmed himself damaging this cup marked stone near Pontypridd has been ordered to pay £4,400 compensation and given a four-month sentence, suspended for two years. A cup-marked stone with an irregular arrangement of at least 35 cupmarks of varying size and depth. Dispersed within the cupmark arrangement are a number of faint incised lines, many cutting into or connecting with cupmarks. Size approx 1.5m by 1m, it is the southern of two cup-marked stones located on open upland heath west of the summit of Mynydd Eglwysilan.

Nant Hir stone

Jamers — Thu, 11 May 2023 18:27:46 GMT

]]>Marker Stone in Wales

Westward Corner Round Barrow

GenineNeale — Tue, 03 Jan 2023 18:07:24 GMT

]]>There are hundreds of barrows and other sites still shown in green on our maps, which means we don't yet have a photo of them. Join us in tracking down, photographing and appreciating these lesser known but valuable sites.. This barrow, which dates to the Bronze Age C 2300-800 AD, is located on the promontory overlooking Porthkerry Bay and is surrounded on four sides by modern housing. The mound itself is fairly well preserved and rises to a height of 1.8 m with a diameter of 9 m and was noted during an inspection in the year 1976 to be surrounded by a ditch of irregular depth with the east and north sides measuring 4.6 m wide. The ditch however, although a contemporary feature, is thought to have been disturbed fairly recently by modern quarrying with the west and south sides in particular being affected. Both of the east and north ditches had apparently been filled in by 1982 leaving only the ditch on the west side extant which measures around 1 m deep and 2 m wide extending and abruptly terminating to the south.

Carreg Siglio

Klingon — Mon, 24 Oct 2022 09:41:27 GMT

]]>The Rocking Stone on Coedpenmaen Common (a natural stone) was a focal point for public meetings in Pontypridd, ranging from industrial, Chartist and Co-operative rallies to Druidic ceremonies. The ancient stone was supplemented with a Gorsedd circle by Myfyr Morganwg in 1849. The stone is perhaps best known, however, for its links to one of the area’s most infamous residents. Dr William Price would regularly address crowds here. It was also here in 1881 that he married Gwenllian Llewellyn.

Tinkinswood

TimPrevett — Sun, 31 Jul 2022 16:34:25 GMT

]]>Mark_in_Wales has made photogrammetry models of the capstones of both Tinkinswood and Coed-Y-Cwm about 1km away. Although they don't seem to be exactly the same rock type, look how they match up!. This chambered long cairn (or long barrow) is covered by an almost rectangular mound, which has a stone cist half way along the northern side. It has a forecourt to the east created by the horns of the cairn, allowing entrance to the main burial chamber. Its capstone, at 40 tons is thought to be the largest in maninland Britain.

St Lythans

JJ — Wed, 29 Jun 2022 15:10:00 GMT

]]>Summer Solstice Photo Competition Winner: Mark_in_Wales. View the other entries here. Mark describes his photo: This light beam was photographed at 21:14 BST on the 20th of June 2022. St Lythans Burial Chamber is a highly accurate tool for determining the Winter Calendar and making this stunning Arrowhead light-beam at The arrowhead shape (known as an oblique arrowhead in academic circles) is extremely precise, with a straight back, curved cutting surface and hooked single tang. The light-beam is formed by only three stones and the angle of the wall it is being projected onto.. Chambered Tomb in South Glamorgan. The Welsh name for this site is Gwal-y-Filiast, the Greyhound Bitch's Lair. There was once a mound of earth or stones covering this Neolithic burial chamber, but only slight traces remain.

Flatholm glacial erratic

PAB — Sat, 20 Mar 2021 10:03:16 GMT

]]>Natural Stone / Erratic in Wales

Caerau (Cardiff)

TauCeti — Wed, 01 Jul 2020 12:17:57 GMT

]]>Do you live near this hillfort? People living near this Cardiff Iron Age hillfort are being asked to dig up a small section of their garden to contribute to an archaeological project. Cardiff people living near hillfort asked to dig up garden. . Caerau Hillfort is a large triangular multivallate Iron Age hillfort occupying the western tip of an extensive ridge-top plateau in the western suburbs of Caerau and Ely, Cardiff, Wales. The old parish church, St Mary’s, and a small ringwork, almost certainly a medieval castle site probably contemporary with the church, stand within the hillfort on the north-eastern side.