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Maen Hir
Standing Stone / Menhir
Maen Hir (Standing Stone / Menhir) on The Modern Antiquarian, the UK & Ireland's most popular megalithic community website. 2 images, 1 fieldnote, plus information on many more ancient sites nearby and across the UK & Ireland.
Image © nix stewart
Nearest Town:
Llandovery (10km SSE)
OS Ref (GB):
SN735447 /
Sheets: 146, 147, 160
Latitude:
52° 5' 8.52" N
Longitude:
3° 50' 47.22" W
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tuesday
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Another isolated, splintered slate slab surmounting a small cairn of packing stones on the mountain. It is intervisible with Maen Bach and the Crugiau Merched cairns and is the most prominent of this ritual complex.
DIMENSIONS
1.4m(h), 0.3m(w),0.4mm(d)
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Posted by
tuesday
9th October 2006ce
Edited 9th October 2006ce
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