Garnwnda

Visited at twilight on February 13th, 2025.
This monument is in such a great spot, cracking views all over Strumble Head and out to sea, including the lighthouse. Although it’s earth-fast/submegalithic/propped stone, it’s far from subtle in appearance when look you up at Carn Wnda....a massive horizontal slab lying contrary to all the vertical flats of the crags around it.
This one seems all about the creation of the chamber, for whatever purpose it was put to. Jack up a slab in situ, make a pit, then stone wall all around to make a chamber. The aesthetics of floating a stone don’t seem relevant here, as if the underpinning ideology or function was of a different kind to the dolmens.
The great evidence destroyer Fenton got to this one too, and noted in 1848:
‘From the quantities of red and black ashes mixed with portions of what seemed to be decomposed burnt bones and small fragments of rude pottery which I found...in the hollow below, I felt no hesitation in forming the conclusion that it had been a place of internment‘
The red ashes are interesting, although Fenton doesn’t say if they plant or animal?