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| The Gwynedd Archaeological Trust has the following to say (PRN4230): '45ft diameter from E-W? Near the summit of Moel Gallt y Llyn. Opened by Wynne-Foulkes in 1850 having been previously opened by an old woman some years before. Wynne-Foulkes excavated the centre but found nothing.... A cairn of roughly piled stones measuring 13m E-W and 14m N-S, on a W facing slope averaging 1.2m high. There is a hole in the centre, 6m across and 1.2m deep which has exposed the natural ground surface'. Incidentally, GAT also cites the existence of a further cairn surmounting the high ground below and to the west at SH65141153. Sceptical - as always - I decided to revisit Oct 2023, only to find.... nothing. Which, of course, is not to say that evidence does not exist. The GAT record is given below should anyone wish to try their luck: "Cairn, Llanfihangel-y-Pennant Primary Reference Number (PRN): 4248 Trust: Gwynedd Community: Llanfihangel-y-Pennant Unitary Authority: Gwynedd NGR: SH65141153 Site Type (preferred type first): PREHISTORIC CAIRN Description: Robbed cairn, 16m in diameter, on the summit of an un-named peak, 1657ft high. (Crew, 1979) Sources: Crew, P., 1979, Cairn, Tyriau Mawr, Archaeology in Wales: Vol. 19: p. 18 Ordnance Survey , 1980 , SH61SE 34 , " |
Posted by GLADMAN9th November 2010ce Edited 13th January 2024ce
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