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| It's very quiet in here. What does anybody know about 'Arrow Stones'? On Coflein they are listed as 'natural rock features' but they are supposed to have man-made stripes on them from sharpening arrows. I see there is a picture of one on the 'portal but without another photo of a different stone it's difficult to say what you're looking at. Marie Trevelyan says in her 1909 book: "Not far from Aber, and about 2 1/2 miles from Llanfairfechan, in one of the wildest and most lonely valleys in North Wales, is the celebrated Arrow Stone, upon which the chieftains of old sharpened their battle axes and other implements of war. Labourers going home from field work and people living near the valley declared that if ever the sound of any instrument being sharpened on the stone reached them, it was an omen of bad luck to the hearer, and foretokened an epidemic in the country, or some disaster in Wales." Surely the marks must be quite obvious if such serious omens are pinned on them. Could they be 'recent'? or are they prehistoric?? I can't find anything about them by surfing the internet. There's five I could spot in the vicinity mentioned by Trevelyan: SH692723 SH680720 SH692709 SH693722 SH695731 Any ideas? or has anyone seen one? Are they convincing arrow-sharpening marks? (welsh for arrow is saeth (-au) Reply | with quote |  22nd September 2005ce 13:35 4 replies: Re: Arrow Stones (tiompan) Re: Arrow Stones (BigSweetie) Re: Arrow Stones (FourWinds) Re: Arrow Stones (PeterH) |
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