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We are doing a trip sometime in the summer, and going to look for the springs round the Stone River which lies just under the rocky outcrop.
Has anyone ever come across them please?
Springs are to be found elsewhere, Foel Drygarn has a small stream running at its foot, and as the whole area is pretty boggy, there must be a few around.

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We are doing a trip sometime in the summer, and going to look for the springs round the Stone River which lies just under the rocky outcrop.
Has anyone ever come across them please?
Springs are to be found elsewhere, Foel Drygarn has a small stream running at its foot, and as the whole area is pretty boggy, there must be a few around.
Not sure if you'd call them proper 'springs', but the Afon Tewgyll
rises due west....

To quoteTim Darvill, when asked at the CALive conference yesterday about the location of springs in the Preselis, "you don't need a map, you just have to look at the landscape"

As part of a Driving the Stone Age trip I'm tentatively titling "Megameet Blues," Loie and I are particularly interested in the Stonehenge bluestones. Now, please forgive me for getting what might be seen as a bit fairylight mystical, but we were tickled by Prof. Darvill's claims at http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history-archaeology/light-on-stonehenge.html?c=y&page=2 .

Especially that "...some springs around the base of the crags, many of which had been altered to create “enhanced springheads”—natural spouts had been dammed up with short walls to create pools where the water emerged from the rock. More important, some of the springheads were adorned with prehistoric art."

It is these (allegedly) damned --er, dammed-- and adorned springs we're looking for. Not just any old springs, and certainly not the springs falling from on high. Those springs we expect to find in Avebury, during what we hope will be the Megameet.

Not having much luck getting any **specific** information from the contacting I've done so far. So, anyone who can help direct us to the adorned springs would be a great help. Thanks!

Doggedly obsessed Googling begins to pay off...

http://www.landscape-perception.com/a_stone_age_holy_land/

I will attempt to contact them.