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Chambered tombs

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Prehistoric Funerary and Ritual Sites in Southeast Wales

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Tinkinswood chambered tomb near Nicholaston, Vale of Glamorgan

An Archaeologist excavating the town ditch at Wind Street, Swansea

This chambered tomb has some similarities in design to Parc le Breos, with the entrance to the chamber by means via a forecourt hollowed into the front of the mound (though there are no side chambers), and with the sides of the mound supported by a drystone wall. This design was common in an area around the Severn and its estuary, stretching inland through the Cotswolds, so archaeologists have named it the Cotswold-Severn tomb.

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