St Lythans Burial Chamber
The St Lythans burial chamber is a single stone megalithic dolmen, built around 4000 BC as part of a chambered long barrow, during the mid Neolithic period, in what is now known as the Vale of Glamorgan, Wales.Photo: Daicaregos, Public domain.
- Type: Archaeological site
- Description: megalithic dolmen in the Vale of Glamorgan, Wales
- Also known as: “St Lythans burial chamber” and “St Lythans Chambered Tomb”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Dyffryn Gardens and Tinkinswood.
Dyffryn Gardens
Park
Dyffryn Gardens, also spelt Duffryn Gardens, is a collection of botanical gardens located near the villages of Dyffryn and St. Nicholas in the Vale of Glamorgan, Wales. Dyffryn Gardens is situated 1,700 feet west of St Lythans Burial Chamber.
Tinkinswood
Archaeological site
Photo: Alan Simkins, CC BY-SA 2.0.
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. Tinkinswood is situated 1 mile northwest of St Lythans Burial Chamber.
Dyffryn House
Building
Dyffryn House is a building, which is situated 1,900 feet west of St Lythans Burial Chamber.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Dyffryn and St Lythans.
Dyffryn
Village
Photo: Mick Lobb, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Dyffryn, often Duffryn, is a village in the communities of Wenvoe and St Nicholas and Bonvilston, in the Vale of Glamorgan in south Wales. It is located 4.8 miles north of the town centre of Barry, roughly 1 mile west of St Lythans and 2 miles south of St.
St Lythans
Hamlet
Photo: Peter Wasp, CC BY-SA 2.0.
St Lythans is a hamlet and former parish in the Vale of Glamorgan, southeast Wales, just outside western Cardiff. It lies southwest of Culverhouse Cross, west of Wenvoe and southwest of Twyn-yr-Odyn and is also connected by road from Dyffryn and the Five Mile Lane in the west.
Twyn-yr-Odyn
Hamlet
Photo: Peter Wasp, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Twyn-yr-Odyn is a hamlet in the Vale of Glamorgan, southeast Wales, just beyond the territorial border of western Cardiff. It lies just southwest of Culverhouse Cross, very close to Wenvoe and St Lythans.
St Lythans Burial Chamber
- Categories: dolmen, chambered long barrow, historic site, tourist attraction, and tourism
- Location: Wenvoe, Vale of Glamorgan, Wales, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
51.44252° or 51° 26′ 33″ northLongitude
-3.29492° or 3° 17′ 42″ westOpen location code
9C3RCPV4+22OpenStreetMap ID
node 1869349099OpenStreetMap feature
historic=archaeological_siteWikidata ID
Q7594075
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In Other Languages
From Catalan to Welsh—“St Lythans Burial Chamber” goes by many names.
- Catalan: “Cambra funerària de St Lythans”
- German: “St Lythans”
- Hebrew: “תא הקבורה סנט לייתנס”
- Spanish: “Cámara funeraria de St Lythans”
- Welsh: “Beddrod Siambr Llwyneliddon”
- Welsh: “Siambr Gladdu Llwyneliddon”
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Highlights include Coed Maes y Felin and Goldsland Wood.
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