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| Visited it in 2005, went across the muddy field too find it hunched in the corner, a strange sorry spectacle, with its huge concrete/brick crutch helping it to basically stay up. Be amazed at its resilience to time and man's indignity to it. Be astounded at the fact this structure has survived all this. It is for this reason it is always worth a visit. |
Posted by skins17th January 2008ce Edited 17th January 2008ce |
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Rain was swirling in the gloaming as we reached Ty Newydd, and I was also disappointed to note the utterly insensitive and ugly restoration work on this previously stunning cromlech. However, I suppose we shouldn't be ungrateful, as brickwork aside, we still see the structure erect. Best of all, the capstone offers a decidedly nautical feel; seen from below, it looks like the prow of a large ship. I remembered trips to HMS Victory. This post appears as part of the weblog entry Cool Cromlechs and Mysterious Menhirs
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Posted by treaclechops3rd September 2006ce Edited 3rd September 2006ce |
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Argh! Another example of hideous restoration! Whichever pricks decided to use pillars of bricks to hold up capstones need their brains concreted. I suppose I should be thankful that the capstone is still up but this beautiful chamber has been very badly damaged by it's repairs. You can get a view of it where the brick pillars are not visible and that is certainly worth enjoying. This post appears as part of the weblog entry Ynys Môn: the good, the bad and ugly
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Posted by Jane31st August 2006ce Edited 31st August 2006ce |
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Oh....... This can look so right. So how can it look so wrong at the same time? |
Posted by stubob22nd April 2003ce Edited 22nd April 2003ce |
| The broken capstone of Ty Newydd is held up by two wide stone built supports which ruin the site - however from one angle, they are obscured so it is possible to see the site as it would have been. A series of large stones in the wall next to the monument look quite suspicious. |
Posted by IronMan2nd April 2002ce |
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Ty Newydd Visited just before Easter 2000. It is a wonderful Dolmen...but I do agree with Julian, it’s repair is simply a disaster. Has or will anything be done it at least visually improve this site, which is in one of those few undistrubed corner’s of Anglesey not yet effected by development & road-works? |
Posted by Schlager Man 6th February 2002ce |
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Looking towards Aberffraw, near the shore, at Tynewydd, Llanfaelog, a double cromlech can, or rather, could be seen: one has been used up, the other has been broken. An "improving" tenant made hedges of the first; and a worshipping tenant, apparently believing in the fitness of what he considered an "altar" to the occasion, made a bonfire on the second to celebrate the coming of age of his landlord, and thus split the ponderous mass (5 feet thick and 13 1/2 feet long) in two. The stone is of the metamorphic rock of the country.From 'Annals and Antiquities of the counties and county families of Wales" by Nicholas Thomas (1872). |
Posted by Rhiannon23rd January 2010ce |
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George Eastman House ArchiveTy Newydd without its preposterous brick additions, taken by Alvin Langdon Coburn. The stones look in pretty much the same places. It makes you feel (from afar at least) that the bricks are sheer paranoia. But the capstone is broken? |
Posted by Rhiannon 20th January 2007ce Edited 20th January 2007ce |
MegalithicsSix images of this site. |
Posted by IronMan 18th March 2002ce |
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