Ancient megalith near Cardiff, Wales | Tinkinswood History & Folklore

This week, we take a closer look at one of the nations most impressive cromlech. Known as Tinkinswood burial chamber, or Siambr Gladdu Tinkinswood, it’s huge capstone is arguably the largest in Britain, perhaps all of Europe....
This megalith is in the small village of St. Nicholas, just 7 miles from Cardiff city centre. Dolmens, or Cromlechs, are the most common megalithic structure across Europe, and Tinkinswood is classified as being in the Severn-Cotswold type. Like a lot of ancient sites we’ve visited, this one also goes by many different names: Castell Carreg - “Stone Castle”, Tinkinswood, Maes-Y-Filiast, Llech-Y-Filiast, Gwal-Y-Filiast.
Join us as we delve into the history and folklore of the site.
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00:00 Introduction
1:16 Name & Location
2:06 Cotswold Severn Type
4:19 Excavations
8:30 Largest Capstone?
8:53 Womb Of Ceridwen
9:24 Legends & Folklore
13:07 Outro
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Books and documents referenced in this video:
-John Ward' Discoveries: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/...
-Archaeologia Cambrensis, 1900: journals.library.wales/view/4...
-Glamorganshire History & Archaeology: glamorganhistoryandarchaeolog...
-Wirt Sikes, British Goblins: archive.org/details/britishgo...
-Marie Trevelyan, From Snowdon to the Sea: archive.org/details/fromsnowd...
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Great map resource - www.oldmapsonline.org/
Great book resources -
archive.org/
www.gutenberg.org/
books.google.co.uk/
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[@coraljackz]

Bore Da! Good morning everyone, we hope you enjoy the video 🙂 Thank you all again for the support, your encouragement over the past year is very much appreciated! Let us know where you think we should go next.. We have a few more sites in Pembrokeshire to cover and then we'll be heading further afield this year! You can also check out our free Patreon content to see what we get up to between videos. www.patreon.com/CoralJackz We've just uploaded a bunch of photos over there of Coetan Arthur, the subject of our next video. An absolutely beautiful location.. Diolch yn fawr. Thanks, Coral Jacky & Zeb

[@user-nq5ge2vs7q]

Brilliant I’m old into my history and have never heard of this! What a treat thanks

[@coraljackz]

Brilliant, check out St Lythans aswell if you get the chance... made from the same stone and practically just round the corner

[@boredfish]

I love this site! I've been there recently.

[@coraljackz]

It's great isn't it? Love revisiting it

[@DidntKnowWhatToPut1]

Well made and well researched video. Subscribed!

[@coraljackz]

Thanks! We really appreciate it

[@toxtravels671]

I lived in Cardiff for 10 years and never knew about this! wow

[@coraljackz]

It's well worth a visit, now that you know!

[@toxtravels671]

next time we are home, I grew up on Anglesey so were spoiled with Bryn Celli Ddu, @@coraljackz

[@coraljackz]

Nice, also remember to visit St Lythans when you are back, made from the same type of stone and practically just round the corner! Got to say we have mixed feelings about Bryn Celli Ddu... the concrete lintles, 'replica stones' and disregard for original shape, or position, make it more of a 'modern interpretation' than a reconstruction... but that's a topic for a future video...😅

[@toxtravels671]

yes will be on the agenda :) wasnt aware the stones were remakes, @@coraljackz

[@Sally-ol1sy]

Lovely video. How about going to Ireland one day and researching some of the ancient sites there?

[@coraljackz]

Thanks! And yes, that would be great to do one day... can't wait 😊

[@steveprowse649]

I would like to ask what is the distribution of Bluestones from the Preseli hills of Wales at Carn Goedog and Craig Rhos-y-felin quarries, at other Neolithic sites in Wales?

[@coraljackz]

That's an interesting question. Around Pembrokeshire's Neolithic sites, the Bluestones are understandably very common. We've noticed bluestones at numerous other sites further afield but haven't yet documented them in a quantifiable manner... so we'll have to get back to you with a better answer as soon as we can!

[@hawklord100]

Some great video and nice quality images long barrows and the ancient stone's are not well represented in Wales and good to see them shown with locations. It is well known that before the advent of metal that the British isles were a land Goddess and Moon venerating peoples, portrayed with some depth in Maria Wheatleys new book The Secret History of StoneHenge and to me it seems that the migration from the levant and later Anotolia brought the Sun worshipping patriarchal society and beliefs with them as you have mentioned the long barrows represented a different society and belief system to the ones that came later.

[@coraljackz]

Thanks for the feedback :) That also sounds like an interesting book, we'll have to check it out!

[@richardclegg7846]

Shaped after the neolithic axe head

[@sarahlouise7163]

fascinating! just wish my ears didn't have to listen to your narration AND the music.

[@coraljackz]

​@@tubthump Hi, if you prefer to read we also share our research as text, along with photos from the visits, across social media. Links in the video & channel descriptions... we are also working on a website to host articles, available soon

[@coraljackz]

@sarahlouise7163 Hi, sorry to hear you don't like this style of audio for the video... we also share our research as text, along with photos from the visits, across social media if you would prefer. Links in the video & channel descriptions

[@tubthump]

@@coraljackz I just deleted my comment because I felt it did your work a disservice. Thank you, I will check that out. Soz!

[@tubthump]

@@coraljackz it’s something I generally have a bee in my bonnet about. Background music on my device always seems a bit too loud.

[@coraljackz]

​@@tubthump thanks for the feedback, we got a bit of criticism for our audio on a video 4 months ago (also a tinkinswood video funnily enough) that sounded quite distorted on some people's devices... after a bit of testing at home we found it sounded fine on the PC and our main TV, but sounded terrible on surround sound or my nice headphones... so now we check the audio on all our devices before uploading... There is also personal preference at play, I love music with everything so should probably tone that down 😅