St Elvis - Chambered Tomb
St Elvis - Chambered Tomb

A short distance from the coast , on a FP from the coast path at Porth Y Bwch .
Two Neolithic Burial Chambers , with massive capstones 3.7m by 3.0m and 2.2m by 2.0m,
set astride a fieldbank, each rest on the ground at one end and are supported
by an errect stone at the other. Other stones may have been structural components
The ruinous burial chambers at St Elvis were blasted by the tenant farmer in 1890,
who then removed two stones from the eastern chamber (RCAHMW).

Ref: 12200

Date: 19/08/2013

Location: SM 8121 2394

St Elvis - Chambered Tomb

A short distance from the coast , on a FP from the coast path at Porth Y Bwch .
Two Neolithic Burial Chambers , with massive capstones 3.7m by 3.0m and 2.2m by 2.0m,
set astride a fieldbank, each rest on the ground at one end and are supported
by an errect stone at the other. Other stones may have been structural components
The ruinous burial chambers at St Elvis were blasted by the tenant farmer in 1890,
who then removed two stones from the eastern chamber (RCAHMW).

Ref: 12200

Date: 19/08/2013

Location: SM 8121 2394