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Re: Missing Tomb on Anglesey ...
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sam wrote:
Benllech (SH51908275) - now not scheduled as it has been identified as a goose house.


From the excavation report:

F Lynch wrote:
The best, and in fact, only reason for regarding the main chamber as a prehistoric burial chamber is its structure. The large capstone destroys is immediately impressive and destroys any idea of the structure being purely agricultural. However, the almost exclusive use of dry-stone walling beneath it is not typical of most megalithic tombs in Anglesey or North Wales.

The monuments t Llygwy ... and Glyn ... do, however, contain a mixture of orthostatic and dry-stone-walling which could perhaps be compared with that at Benllech ...

It is hoped that the plans and sections adequately indicate the points of similarity and contrast between the three sites. In the opinion of the writer the points of similarity are such as to justify their inclusion within the same local group ...




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FourWinds
Posted by FourWinds
25th September 2006ce
19:24

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