Pentre Ifan Burial chamber at sunrise. A megalithic chambered tomb dating from the Neolithic period, 4th Millennium BC.
A megalithic chambered tomb dating from the Neolithic period, 4th Millennium BC. It consited of a portal dolmen in a Cotswold-Severn type long mound with a semicircular forecourt facade of upright stones facing south. The mound extended northwards from the entrance for a total of circa The rectangular chamber was aligned north-south, is approximately 5m x5m square. It has been partly reconstructed but the chamber side stones are missing, and the mound has eroded or been removed.
Size: 5669px × 4241px
Location: Pentre Ifan, Newport, Pembrokeshire, Wales, UK
Photo credit: © Jean Williamson / Alamy / Afripics
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