View N of Gop Cairn late Neolithic artificial mound, Flintshire, North Wales, UK, crowning the summit of Gop Hill: a massive oval cairn 12-14m high.
View N of Gop Cairn late Neolithic artificial mound, Flintshire, North Wales, UK, crowning the summit of Gop Hill. A massive oval cairn 12-14m high x 101m NW-SE. The largest artificial mound in Wales & the second largest in Britain after Silbury Hill. No burial has been located, but it was probably part of a Neolithic sacred complex including cave burials lower down the hill & nearby burial mounds. The cairn has also been described as Bronze Age, connected with wealth generated by the trade in Irish gold. Other suggestions include the grave of Boudicca (Boadicea, a queen of the Britons), or of a Roman general who was seen one night in 1938 on top of the mound astride a white horse, waving a sword & accompanied by a field of Roman soldiers. In Welsh it is known as Bryn-y-Saethau (Hill of the Arrows) because of the many flint arrowheads found on its slopes.
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Location: Gop Hill Cairn, Trelawnyd, Flintshire, Wales, UK
Photo credit: © Mick Sharp / Alamy / Afripics
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