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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).
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Posted by Rhiannon
23rd January 2010ce
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