TAN-Y-COED, CHAMBERED TOMB
Site Details
© Copyright and database right 2021. All rights reserved. Ordnance Survey licence number 0100022206
NPRN 306567
Map Reference SJ03NW
Grid Reference SJ04763961
Unitary (Local) Authority Denbighshire
Old County Merioneth
Community Llandrillo
Type of Site CHAMBERED TOMB
Broad Class RELIGIOUS RITUAL AND FUNERARY
Period Neolithic
Site Description An irregular elongated mound, much mutilated by the construction and opperation of Tan-y-Coed farm, c.43m by 14-20m and 4.0m high, thought to have originally been a circular mound, c.46m in diameter. There is a roughly square megalithic chamber within, its present entrance dating from re-use as a kennel, or store.
(source Os495card; SJ03NW4)
RCAHMW AP955025/62
J.Wiles 26.09.02
