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Just visited the site again this Christmas, the old road has now been side stepped by a new one, there is a parking space on the new road, then you cut across grass to the old road and original entrance. No directional signs to the site are present at the time of writing. This is such a shame, as the new road seems to go to nothing, with it's lovely roundabout, very nice and new- leading to nothing, don't know what's going on here. Shame as the new road layout now seems pointless, going to an imaginary industrial estate. I didn't see the standing stone that used to be in the field opposite. |
Posted by skins5th February 2010ce Edited 5th February 2010ce |
| Access from the north, passed Ty Mawr standing stone is still blocked but is ok from the south. What is happening here is very sad as if the duel carriage way and steel work wasn't bad enough, the work site on the other side is a godawful mess, a much more busy road has been built and the tall menhir Ty Mawr has dissapeared from view completely and is almost unvisitable . |
Posted by postman22nd March 2008ce |
| I tried to get there in December 2007 but the road is now shut (access only). I spoke to Cadw about the work in the area immediately around the site, and they inform me in is totally within the law but does worry them. Me too. Shame. |
Posted by skins 23rd January 2008ce Edited 24th January 2008ce |
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For once, ignore the surrounding landscape when visiting this place, otherwise you will be entirely distracted by the gigantic aluminium smelting plant just the other side of the A55, which runs below Trefignath. Focus instead on the monument itself, think to yourself how much it is reminiscent of Dyffryn Ardudwy. (This was the first thing to strike me about the site – further reading revealed that the esteemed Frances Lynch had indeed proved it had a complexity the same as Dyffryn Ardudwy). Pay especial attention to the two tall pillars at the chamber entrance, and the chamber itself, which is quite something. The huge capstone appears to have broken in half at some point in time. The second chamber is minus its capstone. Jane's immediate reaction was that the whole thing looked like French allee couverte. Haven't seen one, so don't know. Sounds fun, though. I liked Trefignath, despite the drizzly rain, and particularly liked the nobility of the main chamber and the hairy, frondy, fluffy grey-green lichens that grew all over the stones. This post appears as part of the weblog entry Mackerel and Megaliths
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Posted by treaclechops3rd September 2006ce Edited 3rd September 2006ce |
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Just across the new, fast main road from the aluminium smelting plant is this nicely restored chambered cairn. Lots to see here: from a distance and due to the slatey material it's made of, it reminded me very strongly of a French allee couverte. I liked the juxtaposition of the industrial plant so close and the new road. Despite the continual urban and industrial growth, this thing survives - and rather well. While you're here, look out for Ty Mawr just up the lane. It's a biggun! This post appears as part of the weblog entry Holy cow, it's Holy Island
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Posted by Jane31st August 2006ce |
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Just returned to see this site and couldn't believe it, they're building right next to it, I'm presuming they are building some kind of industrial site and widening the old lane to link it too Holyhead. The fields are already bulldozed, the road must be to connect Trearddur to the Holyhead expressway. It's disgusting that such an important site is treated this way. So the site will now have a more traffic in front of it and the expressway to Holyhead behind it, with a lovely view of the Aluminium works in the distance. Such a great shame as the actual site is still very interesting, and well worth a visit, but it's doesn't look good for the immediate area around it. |
Posted by skins 9th July 2004ce Edited 14th December 2007ce |
| Strange timing - I was wondering what to do / say about a stone I visited near Trefignath almost 10 years ago - it's the stone that stubob has just posted a photo of (I think). I visited Anglesey around August 1993. In those days I didn't buy maps, but even from a road atlas I could work out the way to Trefignath and Penrhos Feilw. Whilst walking from Holyhead train station to Trefignath, on the minor road to Trefignath, I was surprised to see a stone standing in the field to the right (i.e. west of the road – I was coming south from the town). All I can remember was that it was close to Trefignath and there was very little else around. It was only about 30/40 metres into the field I think. It seems like the same stone in stubob's photo - my photo is almost the same but I angled mine to have the Holyhead hills in the background. |
Posted by pure joy23rd April 2003ce Edited 23rd April 2003ce |
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A great site, although I'm a bit unsure of the restoration techniques on Anglesey, an overuse of bricks me thinks. But it's one of the sites that they can be easily ignored. There is a small stone further up the road from the chambers in the opposite direction to Ty Mawr approx.SH259801, it stands on a small mound with a few smaller loose stones around it. Not O.S marked, so it may be nothing. |
Posted by stubob22nd April 2003ce Edited 22nd April 2003ce |
| Trefignath is a great site, spoilt by the view to the aluminium works. The site was built in three stages, and these are still clearly discernible, the latest stage being the large chamber, which it is possible to crawl inside. One of the two stones marking this entrance shows signs of quite a large fire being lit there recently, causing some damage to the stone - blackening from the fire and worse a chip out of it's surface. |
Posted by IronMan29th April 2002ce |
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Passing this site last week on the train, there is a new by-pass at the foot of the slope, between Trefignath and the aluminium works. The standing stone Maen Hir is literally within metres of this by-pass. This new road has been built across the whole of Anglesey. Another scar. |
Posted by davina 25th August 2000ce |
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George Eastman House ArchiveA number of photos taken in the first half of the 20th century by Alvin Langdon Coburn (they are about half-way down the list). |
Posted by Rhiannon20th January 2007ce |
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