Cae-yr-Arfau

Also known as:
Cae yr Arfan, Cae'rarfau and Caer Yrfa
Nearest town:
Caerphilly (9km NE)
OS reference:
ST07728214
OS sheet:
170
Latitude:
51° 31' 48.32 N
Longitude:
3° 19' 49.69 W
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Images

Image of Cae-yr-Arfau (Chambered Tomb) by Rhiannon

If this is the right place, it’s quite a different view from today’s. From “On the St Lythans and St Nicholas’ Cromlechs and other remains near Cardiff.” JW Lukis, in Archaeologia Cambrensis 6.22 (April 1875).

Image credit: BS?C
Rhiannon
Rhiannon May 5, 2016
Image of Cae-yr-Arfau (Chambered Tomb) by thesweetcheat

... but it’s illegally locked behind 7 foot gates by the landowner.

Image credit: A. Brookes (2.8.2015)
thesweetcheat
thesweetcheat Sep 27, 2015
Image of Cae-yr-Arfau (Chambered Tomb) by hamish

Hidden in the garden of Cae’rarfau House.

Image credit: Mike Murray
hamish
hamish Jun 22, 2004

Articles

Cae-yr-Arfau

GLADMAN
GLADMAN Apr 10, 2010

Perhaps the shortest Gladman field notes ever... what is THIS all about, then?

Carl’s small, weathered sign has now been replaced by two ‘official’ signs:- a standard Public Footpath sign and a ‘dolmen’ sign featuring a ‘walking man’. This is all well and good except they point to a pair of huge, locked iron gates, the entrance featuring an intercom which does not work. So just how you are supposed to access the ‘Public Footpath’ is beyond me. Quite bizarre.

Some hostility between new occupants and council, perhaps? Needless to say the chamber was there first!

Cae-yr-Arfau

C
CARL Mar 10, 2010

The chamber is signposted (small weathered sign) off the road which runs past the house. The chamber itself is about 10 yards down the drive entrance on the left hand side – in the flower bed!

Cae-yr-Arfau

hamish
hamish Jun 22, 2004

I have searched the field walls in the vicinity off and on for some time. I finally asked at Caer’rarfau House. The lady, called Sandra, told me the chamber was in her garden. So here it is, all that is left is the Chamber lovingly cared for by a lovely lady. She doesn’t mind visitors.
A little info is available on Martin Powell’s pages at homepage.ntlworld.com/mjpowell/Neotomb/Neotomb.htm

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