Neolithic Scratch-Post

Cerrig Y Gof is a Neolithic burial site with five chambers that originally opened outward from the mound of earth that covered them. All the cap stones have fallen off, so it looks like a pile of big rocks unless one knows what it is.

It's between 4,000 and 6,500 years old. People have been writing about it as an archaeological site for over 300 of those, and now it's just behind a roadside fence in a pasture, with a good view of the sea which is less than a mile away. The bus can drop you off a dozen yards from it.

Thousands of winters, billions of raindrops, and the incessant wear of vegetation and wind probably will take longer to obliterate this monument than the human world will last, so the cattle decided to do their part. This cow uses its slabs to scratch those spots as no fence post or tree knows how to do right.

It was a good day for walking in Pembrokeshire and then it was another excellent evening of eating and watching an old film at Chez Ceridwen.

[Edit: Speaking of Ceridwen, [url=http://www.blipfoto.com/entry/958490]HERE [/url]is one of her earliest blips, showing the whole site from the direction of the road and giving more information on it.]