My thanks to Cerrig for providing the ‘nudge’ to finally come here.
Image credit: Robert Gladstone
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I must have missed this. Nice images, you've captured it well. It's become quite overgrown since my gardening trip. Some curious shadow effects on the stones at midday around this time of year. Something for the future perhaps?
Thanks. Yeah, I was impressed with these... don't normally go overboard with just a couple of small stones but the location/vibe really is exquisite, isn't it? Reckon I'll have to try and go see the Carn Pantmaenllwyd at some point, too, coming the other way.
There is something quite special in the simplicity of the layout here. These two stones reveal sophisticated knowledge lost to modern day notions of superstition. Whoever sited them knew exactly what they were trying to do.
Well, my view after all that I've seen over the past 30 years is that if it 'feels' special, that was the point. As you say, the people who placed these stones here understood the human psyche. Whether that was altruistic or cynically controlling like the monotheistic religions is open to debate.
It's my impression that it was understanding that was sought rather than control. There's a feeling in these places that seems to be beyond the purely physical, but what that is I really don't know?