Visited 30.6.10.
There is a wooden field gate next to Mercury Garage on the A478 which gives access to the stone. The stone is easily seen about 100 metres away. I was tempted to go and have a closer look but there was a bloke in the garden opposite who never took his eyes off me so I settled for a view from the gate instead.
I should have read the previous fieldnotes! I scrabbled around trying to see anything, until I stumbled upon the bridle path. I managed to spot the stone through the hedgerow, and grabbed this shot.
Go to the viewpoint at SN010384 up the hill from Dinas Cross and you'll see this standing about 9 feet high in a field behind some cottages on the main road. The view from up here is utterly wonderful. I sat on a bench dedicated to the memory of 'Big' Glyn Somebody-or-other. The inscription read: 'If you knew him you were lucky.' I didn't know him, but I knew I liked this view, as must he have done. I felt lucky.
Visited 20th April and 24th May 2003: On these two subsequent 'visits' to the stone I viewed it from afar. The closest satisfactory view I've managed to get of the stone, without wandering into the field uninvited, is from the gate next to Mercury Garage (on the A478). The second view, is much more spectacular, but not so close up, from the viewing point to the south of Dinas Cross.
Visited 5th August 2002: Once again I visited a site with good intentions to stay on the footpath, but in the end it came to now't. I walked along the bridleway to the north of the stone, but the hedgerow made it very difficult to see it clearly.
Rather than turn back I kept on walking until I got to a gate into the field adjoining the one that the stone is in. By hopping over this I reached the stone and took a couple of very furtive photographs. I was feeling rather smug with myself until I spotted a couple of faces watching me from the upstairs window of a house at the bottom of the field. I decided to briskly leave the scene of the crime via a gate next to the house, and onto the A487. Yes, the stone is clearly visible from the main road!
In the Cadw records for Parc Cerrig Hirion I found a brief and rather vague reference to a second stone that may have stood in the same field. The land owner (who I assume was in conversation with a representative of Cadw) reported that his father had removed a standing stone from the field, and put it in the hedge. He rather helpfully offered to put it back again if necessary!
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