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Llech y Drybedd Chambered Tomb is in Moylgrove, Pembrokeshire, Prehistoric Wales Neolithic Burials.
3000BC. Llech y Drybedd Chambered Tomb [Map]. A free standing megalithic chamber, with earthfast stones supporting a substantial capstone: no traces of a mound are mentioned.
An Historical Tour through Pembrokeshire. Call on my friend John Evans, Esq. of Glastir, and in company with him and a guest of his, the Reverend Mr. Owen, who was then on a visit to his native country after an absence of twenty-one years, ride to see Llech y dribedd [Map], one of the most perfect of that species of druidical relics called Cromlech we have in the county, with a representation of which, from the fine pencil of Sir Richard Hoare, the frontispiece is enriched. It is supported on three upright stones of no great height; there was another stone, as is frequently seen but not in contact, overturned. The incumbent stone is not so flat as usual, being of immense bulk, and about forty feet in circumference, nearly round, and its mean thickness from three to four feet. The stone is of a very peculiar kind, being of a blueish colour, very hard, yet yielding a little to an edged tool; the south-east side of the stone being superficially marked all over with initials of names for these two hundred years, and one corner worn down into a perfect hone by the shepherds. Mr. Evans, my Cicerone, who is the proprietor of this venerable relic, with a zeal which does him honour, takes great pains to preserve it. At the west end of the field in which it stands towards the sea, I pass a stone called Maen y tri thivedd, or the stone of the three heirs, the possession of three different men having met there.
Archaeologia Cambrensis 1844 Pages 129-144. That of A represents Llechytribedd [Llech y Drybedd Chambered Tomb [Map]], or the Stone of the Three Graves. Its capstone, 7 feet 10 inches by 7 feet, and about 4 feet thick, is of unusual thickness. A reverse view, from a sketch by Sir B. Colt Hoare, is given as a vignette by Fenton. There was formerly a fourth stone lying near it, but now lost. This was, no doubt, the stone that closed the entrance, and therefore independent of the capstone.
Archaeologia Cambrensis 1847 Page 373. In the parish of Nevern, near Newport (Trevdraeth), Pembrokeshire, there are two magnificent cromlechs, namely,
1. Llech y Drybedd [Map], about two and a half miles north-east of Nevern church, on Tre Icert farm. It is supported upon three short upright stones. he incumbent stone is of a bluish, or a hone-colour, hue, and knives and penknives are sharpened upon it. It is about forty feet in circumference, and its thickness from three to four feet.
The vignette in the title-page of Fenton's History of Pembrokeshire, is a drawing of it by the late Sir Richard Hoare; but there instead of the incumbent stone dipping north-west, it dips south-east.
In a field on the west there is a stone called Maen y tri-etivedd, the stone of the three heirs.
2. Coetan Arthur, on Pentre Ivan farm [Map], about two and a half miles south-east of Nevern church. Mr. Fenton says, that Sir Richard Hoare thought the cromlech, or temple, (?) at Pentre Ivan, surpassed in size and height any he had seen in Wales or England, Stonehenge and Abury excepted. It was formerly in a circle of rude stones, one hundred and fifty feet in circumference.
The incumbent stone rests upon two of columnar form, tapering to a point, with an intermediate one, which does not quite reach the south end. The most elevated supporter is above eight feet high, the lowest seven feet. The top stone is of immense size, and much thicker at one extremity than the other. It is eighteen feet long, nine feet broad, and three feet deep at the heavier end.
Archaeologia Cambrensis 1872 Pages 81-143. Cut No. 6 represents the cromlech Llech y Dribedd [Map], which stands two miles and a half to the north-east of Nevern Church. It has been described by Sir Gardner Wilkinson in the notice already mentioned. The capstone 1s nearly 8 ft. long, and from 3 to 4 thick, having, according to Fenton, a circumference of nearly 40 ft, Its three supporters vary from 3 to 4 ft. 8 ins. A fourth stone lies beneath it, and had assisted in forming a side of the chamber; but had not, in all probability, ever supported the capstone.