Carreg Slic (Standing Stone / Menhir) — Miscellaneous
Carrig Slic is a lost stone, which I've tried on numerous occasions to find. By the time it was engulfed by the forestry plantation (possibly during the 1950s) it had already fallen, and nobody really knows what happened to it after that. Here's what little I could glean from records at the NMRW:
On the southern side of Mynydd March, approximately 150 yards north of Lluestfach Farmhouse. It stands on land sloping westwards and on the northern side of a col.
Now prostrate, but was standing in living memory. 9' 6" in length. Has drill marks on it from failed attempt to convert to gate post.
The grid reference that we have for the stone is only approximate (SN71908355). In 2003 the forest in this area was clear felled, but sadly this didn't reveal the stone. If it lies slightly to the south then it may be buried under a forestry track, or if it's a bit further south it may still be in remaining forestry. The name Carrig Slic means 'the slippery stone', which seems wholly appropriate.
Mynydd March (Standing Stone / Menhir) — Fieldnotes
The Mynydd March stone, along with it's neighbours Buwch a'r Llo, has the easiest access of any standing stone in north Ceredigion. It's right next to the road, and there's no boundary fence.
The stone has two distinctive cracks running diagonal across it, presumably caused by weathering. From some angles it looks very strange, like some sort of a half peeled megalithic fruit. Of the three stones on the verge of the road, Mynydd March is the smallest and the easiest to miss as you drive past.
Castell Coch (Standing Stone / Menhir) — Fieldnotes
Visited 25th September 2002: The Buwch a'r Llo and Mynydd March stones are very easy to find, but I've only just found their neighbour, a small stone called Castell Coch.
Castell Coch means red castle in Welsh, and it seems to be named after the nearby farm (I have no idea how the farm came to get it's name). Coming from the direction of Penrhyn Coch it's beyond the cattle grid on the right-hand side of the road, hidden in amongst the reeds. Although it's near the road, I only spotted it by chance. I'll not spoil your fun by giving you the grid reference!
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