When I finally found this tomb I was not surprised that I'd failed on two previous attempts. The official coordinates are 75m out and that's a long way in a pine plantation where you can only see 20m in front of you.
The monument is delightful. So good, in fact, that the very small area set aside for it in the plantation only detracts from the site by a small amount.
The structure is almost complete. The 5m long gallery has two large, very slightly displaced roofstones. There is a portico at the SW end of the gallery and the whole is edged by a U-shaped kerb. The inner-forest location has led to all the stones getting a thick coating of loose moss. Several trees erupt from amongst the stones, but these have all died. This means that they are no longer causing damage to the structure, but when they fall they could displodge some of the stones: they should be carefully removed before this happens.
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