Visiting Tinkinswood Burial Cairn: A Visitor’s Guide
How to find the cairn, what to look for when you arrive, and how to read the 40-tonne capstone and its chamber in the landscape around it.
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HOME | BLOG THE TINKINSWOOD BLOGShort, readable articles about the Neolithic heritage of the Vale of Glamorgan – drawn from more than thirty years of research into the Tinkinswood Burial Cairn, how it was built, measured and positioned, and the people who raised it. New articles are added as the research is written up. Visiting Tinkinswood Burial Cairn: A Visitor’s GuideHow to find the cairn, what to look for when you arrive, and how to read the 40-tonne capstone and its chamber in the landscape around it. The Megalithic Yard and the Pole: Neolithic Units of MeasureWhat the megalithic yard is, how Alexander Thom measured it, and why the humble “pole” may be the true working unit behind these monuments. Neolithic Burial Cairns of the Vale of GlamorganA short tour of the chambered tombs of the Vale, the features they share, and what they tell us about the society that built them. Aligning Monuments to the Landscape: Neolithic PrecisionHow Neolithic builders tied their sites to rivers, mountains and the rising and setting sun – and how to test an alignment without fooling yourself. Did Writing Originate in the Vale of Glamorgan?The case – and the counter-arguments – for Neolithic people recording information in a systematic, written form thousands of years ago.
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