Tinkinswood

Tinkinswood or its full name Tinkinswood Burial Chamber, also known as Castell Carreg, Llech-y-Filiast and Maes-y-Filiast, is a megalithic burial chamber, built around 4000 BC, during the Neolithic period, in the Vale of Glamorgan, near Cardiff, Wales [1]. The structure is a dolmen, which was the most common megalithic structure in Europe [1]. The dolmen is of the Severn-Cotswold tomb type, and consists of a large capstone on top, with smaller upright stones supporting it [1]. The site was excavated in 1914, and inside the chamber there were 920 human bones, which were nearly all broken [1].