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I.—Excavation of the Megalithic Chambered Cairn at Dyffryn Ardudwy, Merioneth, Wales

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 April 2011

T. G. E. Powell
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Summary

The visible monument comprised two periods of construction. First, a small megalithic chamber, characterized by a pair of projecting portal-stones flanking a high closing slab, had been built, and surrounded by a small oval cairn. The chamber had been rifled, but a pit in front of the portal, and sealed beneath the cairn, contained portions of several Neolithic pottery vessels of a fine, undecorated, ware. The second structure consisted of a large megalithic burial chamber built to the east of the first monument. The cairn of this, eastern, chamber was roughly rectangular in plan, and extended westward so as to incorporate the whole of the earlier monument. Pottery from the eastern chamber, and its forecourt, represented several Neolithic, and Bronze Age, wares. The elaborate system of blocking in this forecourt was found virtually intact.

The report is subdivided:

I. Introduction

II. Topography

III. Method of Excavation

IV. Description of the Monument as Excavated

V. Artefacts

VI. Discussion

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Research Article
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Archaeologia , Volume 104 , 1973 , pp. 1 - 49
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Copyright © The Society of Antiquaries of London 1973

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