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This unusual chamber was excavated in 1908 and skeleton remains of between 15 and 30 people, men, women and children, as well as animal bones were found. Shells, flint implements, pottery and a bone pin was also found. From the pottery remains it was a deduced that it was in use in the Neolithic through to Bronze ages. The Capstone is estimated to weigh between 25 and 28 tons and covers the burial chamber, standing on eight uprights that sit on the natural bedrock around 5ft below, or on rough stone walling. The capstone is 18ft (5.5m) long and 15ft (4.6m) wide. The entrance was at the eastern end. Being sunk into the ground it gives it a shrunken appearance compared to others. You can get inside, but there is little to see. It would have been originally covered by a mound of stones, earth or turf. The inside This huge rock appears different from every direction
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