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Ty Newydd

Dolmen / Quoit / Cromlech

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Looking towards Aberffraw, near the shore, at Tynewydd, Llanfaelog, a double cromlech can, or rather, could be seen: one has been used up, the other has been broken. An "improving" tenant made hedges of the first; and a worshipping tenant, apparently believing in the fitness of what he considered an "altar" to the occasion, made a bonfire on the second to celebrate the coming of age of his landlord, and thus split the ponderous mass (5 feet thick and 13 1/2 feet long) in two. The stone is of the metamorphic rock of the country.
From 'Annals and Antiquities of the counties and county families of Wales" by Nicholas Thomas (1872).
Rhiannon Posted by Rhiannon
23rd January 2010ce

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