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The Chambered Cairn at Dyffryn Ardudwy

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

T. G. E. Powell
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The chambered cairn at Dyffryn Ardudwy is one of the principal tombs in a group of six surviving monuments that stand at medium altitudes above the sea coast in this vicinity which lies midway between Harlech and Barmouth. The cairn stands close to the village school in Dyffryn Ardudwy, and the questionable safety of the capstone of the larger chamber was the principal reason for undertaking excavation and consolidation. The work was carried out by the Department of Prehistoric Archaeology of the University of Liverpool on behalf and with the close assistance of the Inspectorate of Ancient Monuments for Wales. The monument has been well-known since Crawford's plan of 1920, and has been described by Grimes and Daniel in so far as surface inspection would allow.

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Research Article
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Antiquity , Volume 37 , Issue 145 , March 1963 , pp. 19 - 24
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd. 1963

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References

1 O. G. S. Crawford, Arch. Camb. (1920), 133; W. F. Grimes, Proc. Preh. Soc., 11 (1936), 121; G. E. Daniel, The Prehistoric Chamber Tombs of England and Wales (1950), 196.

2 A. Williams, Arch. Camb. (1954-53), 20-47; S. Piggott, The Neolithic Cultures of the British Isles (1954), passim.

3 For information on comparative material in Portugal I am already indebted to Col. Mário Cardozo. I would be grateful for knowledge of any exact parallels known to readers of this preliminary report.

4 S. Piggott, op. cit., 132.

5 As succinctly expressed in another context by R. J. C. Atkinson in S. Piggott, ed., The Prehistoric Peoples of Scotland (1962), 8.

6 S. Piggott, The West Kennet Long Barrow: Excavations 1955-56 (1962).

7 J. G. Scott, ANTIQUITY, XXXVI (1962), 97-101.

8 Cf. fig. 77 in S. Piggott, ‘The British Neolithic Cultures in their Continental Setting’, 557-74 of J. Böhm and S. J. De Laet, ed., L’Europe à la fin de l’âge de la pierre, Prague, 1961.

9 For a recent discussion of Irish Portal Dolmens see R. De Valéra, Proc. Roy. Irish Acad., LX (1960), 64-69. I, however, retract the typological sequence I set out in J. Roy. Soc. Ant. Ireland, LXXI (1941), 9-23.