Finding this one took some time, because once again I approached from the wrong direction. It was when I was 50 yards into the water meadow that I realised that I had forgotten my boots! Anyway, the effort was well worth it.
The tomb has a massive capstone, now sadly slipped and deforming the large chamber beneath. One portal stone stands to a height of 2.3m. The chamber is blocked by a half height door stone, about 1.2m high. Not much of the cairn remains - I think this has been used to make the dry stone wall that incorporates one side of the chamber.
The capstone is a 3m wide, 4m long and 40cm thick slab of mudstone. 4m to the rear of the tomb is a large rectangular slab which must have been the back stone of the chamber. The map shows the tomb next to a stream near to a confluence with a second one, but it seems to stand on the edge of a sunken pathway, perhaps a dry stream bed.
Its location is quite idyllic under the deciduous trees with the sun filtering through the leaves above.
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