Lonely Grave, Arthurs Stone, Gower, Wales. - Out of Place Graves on Waymarking.com

Whilst out 'Waymarking Arthurs Stone' on a wet foggy January afternoon, on Cefn Bryn a high point of the Gower Peninsular, normally with amazing views of the Loughor Estuary, I stumbled across a small plaque on the ground, it was inscribed.
Mary Ludkin - Nee Macarthy - 1935-1995 'CARIAD' (a Welsh word for, Loved one) its located approx 30 feet from the outer ring of the Stones surounding Arthurs Stone.
I found reference to the plaque on the find-a-grave Web Site :- (visit link)

"Arthurs Stonem Perched upon a set of pointed supporting stones, the capstone is a 25 ton quartz conglomerate boulder, measuring an almighty 4 metres by 2 metres and 2 metres depth. Although the construction of this 'portal dolman' seems a magnificent feat, it is most likely that the Neolithic builders used the boulder conveniently deposited upon Cefn Bryn by a glacial ice sheet that during the last great Ice Age. The builders would have excavated beneath the immense rock, inserting the upright stones as they dug, creating two burial chambers. It has also been claimed in Dewi Bowen's book "Ancient Siluria" that a local astronomer, Richard Roberts, believes that Arthur's Stone is part of a astronomical construct together with the alignment of other landmarks visible from Cefn Bryn."

Source :- (visit link)

First Name: Mary Last Name: Ludkin Born: Not listed Died: Not listed

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