The Pentre Ifan cromlech and the Castell Henllys hillfort are in the parish, each about 2 miles from Nevern village as the crow flies.
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The king became the solitary King Stone, while nearby his soldiers formed a cromlech, or circle, called the King's Men.
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There are several Danish forts, and on the lands of Townamodagh is a cromlech, seven feet high, and supported by four square pillars.
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The dolmen or cromlech is one of three that can be found in the vicinity, the others being on Tibradden Mountain and at Mount Venus.
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In the Neolithic period, corpses may have been placed in the caves until they had decomposed, before the bones were moved to the cromlech.
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The cromlech consists of a north & ndash; south aligned long mound of locally obtained rocks and cobbles, mainly of limestone, orthostat exposed.
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Skeletal remains from the passageway were part articulated, showing no sign of animal scavenging, suggesting they were placed in the cromlech as fleshed corpses.
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The earliest known reference in print to the Coldrum Stones comes from Albert Way 1845, when it was erroneously described as a stone circle with a cromlech.
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The treatment of the ashes varies instead with burials in stone circles ( " cromlechs " ), mounds, caves, cists or urn fields.
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The individual burial in " cromlech " is the most aboundant but limited to the Pyrenean region, where 851 of these funerary monuments are documented.
