A winter's walk, January 2015, part 2 - St Lythan's

Continuing the story of last Saturday's hike around the Vale of Glamorgan, the second ancient burial site encountered en route was this stunning Neolithic chambered tomb, standing in glorious isolation in the middle of a field just outside the hamlet of St Lythan’s in the Vale of Glamorgan.

Like Tinkinswood, just a mile or so up the road, the cromlech is something like 6,000 years old and would originally have been at least partially covered with an earthen mound.

The site has never been fully excavated, so not much is known about it, but the dolmen would once have formed part of a much larger chambered long barrow, the shape of which is still partially visible in the field around.

The dolmen stands in the middle of a field called Maesyfelin, which it often shares with a herd of cows - I’m rather glad they weren’t there the day I visited, it was muddy enough underfoot as it was!