The east stone of "The Pass of the Two Stones" has a good number of ankle-high stones radiating outwards some distance to the east, in a dip. These are earthfast, and not here by coincidence.
Frances Lynch in her guidebook to the ancient sites of the area, likens the small stones' to that of Bryn Cader Faner.
I counted fourteen small stones here. There are likely more under the grass.
The east menhir can be seen to the rear, as can the west menhir, with one of its other associated stones.
Frances Lynch also says the western stone has a further two associated stones.
The valley of the two stones - don't know how you say electricity pylons in Welsh! But somehow, if you make your way up here at the right time they just don't seem to matter. Winter is the best, preferably at twilight, this place just has such an atmosphere. The two huge standing stones stand on the horizon as you rise out of the valley to look down towards Anglesey (there's the remains of a Roman Road here) - and they almost seem like gateposts, the entrance to another world. I often wonder if that was their intended effect.
When the giant and his wife were carrying all their stones to Anglesey, and the wife dropped hers at Barclodiad-Y-Gawres (more on the story there), this is where the giant dropped his.
Mentioned in Ainsworth's Magazine, v15 for 1849, p514.
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