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Tinkinswood

St Nicholas, Vale of Glamorgan

A tomb with a 40-ton capstone, where a night's stay brings madness or poetry.

Tinkinswood has a limestone capstone weighing about 40 tons, thought to be the largest in Britain. When it was excavated in 1914, nearly a thousand bones from at least forty people were found.

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When
c. 4000 BC
Where
51.4520, -3.3080
Group
Circles & monuments

Visiting

Cadw, free. A short walk from the lane.

Cover of The Ledger of Lost Britain by Cale Mills
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The Ledger of Lost Britain

The Romans arrived in AD 43. For most people that is where the history of Britain begins. But by the time the legions landed, people had already been living on these islands for thousands of years. They had hunted, farmed, mined flint, dragged stones across the country, raised a hill by hand, and buried their dead in great tombs. They left no written words. What they left was the ground itself. Every place in this book can be visited, or has been dug up, or is in a museum.

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