Penmaen Burrows Burial Chamber - Dolmen.

 Visit date 08-2022.  View showing entrance passageThere are many ancient burial sites around the southwest of Wales and I took a recent visit to Penmaen Burrows on the Gower peninsular to try and find one of the lesser known minor Neolithic burial sites.These burial sites are often marked with three or more uprights and a large capstone. Often this is all that is left of the site which...

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Parc Slip Mining Memorial.

 Visit Date 03-2019. Parc Slip in the village of Tondu was one of many small coal mines that scattered the south Wales valleys at the end of the last century.This area was very poor in monetary terms was very rich in community and in these small villages people were very close.At 8.20 am on Friday 26th August 1892 when 146 men and boys were working in the mine the unthinkable happened, there...

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