I hope you will bear with me, as this is rather random, but it struck me as being the 1847 equivalent of The Modern Antiquarian website, with its encouragements to visit and share experiences of an ancient site, and also some instructions on how to get there. I particularly like that the efforts will “secure a day’s gratification”. I’m sure ladies would have also been welcome assuming they’d finished making the dinner, etc.
To the Editors of the Archaeologia Cambrensis.
Gentlemen, – Will you be kind enough to permit me through your medium to request some of the antiquaries of Swansea and its neighbourhood, to forward you a description, and whatever account may be procurable, of Carn Llechart. It will be found on the hill side, near the top ridge, indeed, of Mynydd Marn Coch, in the parish of Llangyfelach. From Swansea, the way to it is up the vale to Pontardawe, and then a lane on the left may be safely followed for a mile or so; a question addressed to the first cottager will then put the tourist right in the way of the circle, which he will find in a state of almost perfect preservation. If my friend Geo. Grant Francis, Esq. would give a day to this good work, he would at once secure to himself a day’s gratification and serve the cause for the promotion of which you so devotedly and successfully labour.
I am, Gentlemen, yours truly, D. Rhys Stephen. Grove Place, Manchester, 21 Sept. 1847
Archaeologia Cambrensis, v2 (1847).
I do like this suggestion: "...a question addressed to the first cottager will then put the tourist right in the way of the circle....".