Cae-yr-Arfau

Chambered Tomb
ST07728214

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

Added to TMA by

hamish

Images (6)
Fieldnotes (3)

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 May 5, 2016

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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 Sep 27, 2015

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There’s a public footpath to the chamber ...

Image credit: A. Brookes (2.8.2015)

thesweetcheat Sep 27, 2015

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

Image credit: Mike Murray

hamish Jun 25, 2004

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Image credit: Mike Murray

hamish Jun 22, 2004

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Hidden in the garden of Cae’rarfau House.

Image credit: Mike Murray

hamish Jun 22, 2004

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Articles

Cae-yr-Arfau

Chambered Tomb

GLADMAN Apr 10, 2010

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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Carl’s small, weathered sign has now been replaced by two ‘official’ signs:- a standard Public Footpath sign and a ‘dolmen’ sign featuring a ‘walking man’.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!

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Cae-yr-Arfau

Chambered Tomb

CARL Mar 10, 2010

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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!

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Cae-yr-Arfau

Chambered Tomb

hamish Jun 22, 2004

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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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