Treen Common Enclosure or Stone Circle, photograph taken from the east-south-east on 16 August 2003.
Image credit: Chris Bond
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July 20, 2025
Treen Common Enclosure or Stone Circle, photograph taken from the south-east on 16 August 2003.
Image credit: Chris Bond
Treen Common Enclosure or Stone Circle, photograph taken from the north on 16 August 2003.
Image credit: Chris Bond
Treen Common Enclosure or Stone Circle, photograph taken from the north-west on 16 August 2003.
Image credit: Chris Bond
The cist on the NE slopes. Looking up towards the summit; the top of the trig pillar which marks the summit cairn can just be seen on the skyline.
Image credit: A. Brookes (26.6.2024)
The cist on the NE slopes below the summit. Looking towards Sheeps Tor and Sharpitor.
Image credit: A. Brookes (26.6.2024)
Looking south towards Trowlesworthy and the spoil heaps of Lee Moor Quarry over the low remains of the summit cairn. There’s a fair amount of consolidated stone here, even though it’s very low now.
Image credit: A. Brookes (26.6.2024)
Detail of the summit cairn. Looking eastish towards the higher ridge of Penn Moor/Shell Top.
Image credit: A. Brookes (26.6.2024)
The scant remains of the summit cairn, a low platform of stone around the trig pillar. Looking WNW towards Sheeps Tor and Sharpitor.
Image credit: A. Brookes (26.6.2024)
July 19, 2025
July 16, 2025
Moelfre beyond, the ever present. Still trying to suss where the cairn on top of it was viewed from.. the related settlement. It’s visible from Shell Island way and the coast but you lose sight of it as you approach from the west.
Image credit: Mike Purslow
July 15, 2025
A Pagan Site.
At a short distance from the Church of Rafford, on the face of the hill to the east, are the remains of a Druidical temple – now shrunk into three grey stones, of about three feet high, set into the earth. From time immemorial, they have been called “Temple Stones,” and the farm adjacent is so named.
A curious tradition still floats in the minds of the country people, respecting the attempt to build the old Kirk of Rafford on the site of this pagan temple. The first loads of stones for the kirk was laid down at Temple Stones, but the next morning they were found by the side of the burn, in a marsh, 1000 yards distant! During the night they had been removed by some invisible being; next day they were again brought back to the pagan site, but they refused to rest on such polluted soil; and back they whirled through the air, or along the earth to the burn-side. The heritors* not being disposed further to dispute the matter with so mysterious an agency, acquiesced, and the church was built in the marsh by the side of the burn, and in it the parishioners worshipped till the present beautiful fabric – the most beautiful of all country kirks – was erected.
From the Forres Elgin and Nairn Gazette, 25th April 1928.
*I’m always learning new words doing this.
July 14, 2025
From a visit to the site in 2023
Image credit: CoralJackz - ThatHistoryCouple
Some of the corrugated looking stones
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Collection of information on these stones at Dyffryn Syfynwy, including antiquarian notes and images.
July 13, 2025
A team of archaeologists has created the most precise reconstruction yet of a Roman siege on a British hillfort by using crime scene forensics.
Kerris Menhir. Photograph taken from the north-west on 6 March 2004.
Image credit: Chris Bond