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Hot Weather Shows Wales' History From an item published on the BBC News web site on 8th August 2006: Hot weather has produced parched landscapes which have allowed experts to detect the outlines of some of Wales' earliest buildings...See the aerial photos, including an image of the newly discovered circular enclosure and barrow near Aberystwyth. |
Posted by Kammer10th August 2006ce Edited 2nd June 2007ce |
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Meini MeirionnyddA Welsh web site that has grown out of the publication of the very popular book 'Meini Meirionnydd'. The site is currently under development but will eventually have information in Welsh about the Pre-history monuments of Wales. |
Posted by caealun6th September 2008ce Edited 11th November 2008ce |
CARN: Core Archaeological Record iNdexCARN is the original public entry-point to the Extended National Database for Wales, a national information resource for archaeology and architecture. See also Coflein, which includes a useful search by map. |
Posted by RiotGibbon 20th August 2001ce Edited 8th February 2008ce |
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Ystumcegid (Dolmen / Quoit / Cromlech) — Images (click to view fullsize) |
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Posted by GLADMAN14th March 2010ce |
Y Capel (Stone Circle) — Images |
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Posted by GLADMAN 14th March 2010ce |
Cylch Derwyddol (Stone Circle) — Images |
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Posted by GLADMAN 14th March 2010ce |
Carreg Samson (Dolmen / Quoit / Cromlech) — Fieldnotes |
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It's not ideal and not for most people but sleeping in the car makes for a good day out, this time we parked a couple of miles east of Abercastle, a few hours later and the alarm goes off at first light, then its funny how comfortable a Ford Mondeo can be. Last time we came there was a campsite here, its gone now and the farm isnt a busy place anymore, nor is it a happy place. We parked the car in site of Carreg Samson in the farm yard and walked the last hundred metres down to the dolmen, the cows began to stand up as we approached but they kindly vacated the field for us and gave us no bother. You can stand up under the capstone like at Pentre Ifan but unlike that waif like streamlined structure, this is rough, chubby, and oaf like, but i'm being unkind the stones are bigger to hold up the continent of capstone above. Of the six orthostats holding up the thick wedge of a capstone only three touch stone and they are of two kinds of rock, three of a smooth sandstoney and three conglomerates, reminded me vaguely of East Aquhorthies where they too intentionally used different kinds of stone. What does it mean, does it mean anything, could it be part of the builders folklore, traditions or religion. The stones are far more permanent than the ugly farm, hopefully it wont put up too much of a struggle and do the decent thing and dissappear, leaving the cromlech alone with its view and its visitors. |
Posted by postman14th March 2010ce |
Ffyst Samson (Chambered Tomb) — Fieldnotes |
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Definitive directions: There is room to park on the road to the west by a house, walk south back down the road to a footpath, a gate has to be climbed to get in the field and once there the path is indistinct. Go straight up the hill through a gateless gap in the hedge, the map says the path forks here but as there is no path on the ground, we must trust our noses, i'm Anosmic so which sense i'm using I dont know. Keep going uphill untill you see the big rock outcrop, a fence is crossed and there is the cromlech in the same field as the outcrop. It is only a ten minute walk to the stones, one or two gates and fences, put away any fear of farmers this is our world, "I was here first" is no excuse to keep us out, be brash, be brave and if caught out feign ignorance. Ffyst Samson is just brilliant, how could it possibly stay up there, my daughter and me tried to push it off to no avail, ( i'd be mortified and stay at home forever if we'd succeeded) I guess its just so damned heavy and we're so little. In the wall next to the cromlech is an out of place large stone and just yards to the north is a longer stone which could have been part of it. The outcrop is easy to climb even for a ten year old girl so no excuses, the view from the top is exquisite in the extreme, the cliffs and rocks by the sea, the other rocky tors nearby and further away the blunted peaks of the Presellis. Perfect, I suppose I should have said I never found it either to help presreve its solitude and mystery, but this kind of peace and beauty cant stay hidden forever, welcome to the wooooorld of tomorrow. |
Posted by postman 14th March 2010ce |
Ffyst Samson (Chambered Tomb) — Images |
   
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Posted by postman 14th March 2010ce |
Carreg Samson (Dolmen / Quoit / Cromlech) — Images |
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Posted by postman 14th March 2010ce |
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