Trefael Stone reveals stone age burial chamber

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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-18172598


The Trefael Stone, seen here with a metre-long measuring stick, is probably the capstone of a Stone Age burial chamber

Archaeologists are to exhume and analyse human bones found under a prehistoric monument only recently identified as a burial site cap.

The Trefael Stone in Pembrokeshire was thought to be just one of many linked to nearby Bronze Age locations.

But it has now been reclassified after a survey established it as the capstone of a Stone Age ritual burial chamber.

The survey revealed the location, near Nevern, has been used for ritual burials for at least 5,500 years.