Beneath the burial chamber

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Beneath the burial chamber

Image: © Natasha Ceridwen de Chroustchoff Taken: 21 Jul 2009

Brambles and other vegetation encroach upon this island of stones in the midst of an arable or pasture field. Trellyffant (or Trellyffaint) means 'place of toads'. The mediaeval historian Giraldus Cambrensis reported that the tomb was so-called because the chieftain buried there was devoured by toads.

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