Built at around 4000bc the St. Lythans Dolmen is a large lonely structure near the Capital of Wales, Cardiff.

Originally covered by an earthen mound around 90ft/27m in length, only traces of this now remain.

Despite its Neolithic origins, the site’s name may derive from the Arthurian legend of Culhwch and Olwen, which appears in two 14th-century texts.

St. Lythans Dolmen is only 1.6km from another more extensive Tinkinswood burial chamber

The capstone, which slopes downwards, measures four metres (13 ft) long, three metres (10 ft) wide, and 0.7 metres (2 ft) thick.

Interestingly, this site is likely to be a lot older than the more expansive and more well known Stonehenge.

There are many of this type of structures, often also referred to as Cromlechs all over Europe.

These structures often have "local legends" attributed to them and the one I like the most is that each Midsummer's Eve, the capstone spins around three times and all the stones go to the nearby river to bathe, Now if I could only capture that with my camera!