Coed-Pen-Maen Common

Nearest town:
Pontypridd (1km WNW)
OS reference:
ST07969025
OS sheet:
170
Latitude:
51° 36' 10.92 N
Longitude:
3° 19' 44.89 W
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Images

Image of Coed-Pen-Maen Common (Cist) by thesweetcheat

Rather lovely boulder/outcrop intervisible with the cairn circle (which is in the tufty grass in the far left background).

Image credit: A. Brookes (11.1.2014)
thesweetcheat
thesweetcheat Mar 6, 2014
Image of Coed-Pen-Maen Common (Cist) by thesweetcheat

Small standing stone to the NE of the cairn circle, presumably part of the Victorian complex around the rocking stone rather than prehistoric.

Image credit: A. Brookes (11.1.2014)
thesweetcheat
thesweetcheat Mar 6, 2014
Image of Coed-Pen-Maen Common (Cist) by thesweetcheat

Looking across the circle from the north. The Taf valley is below.

Image credit: A. Brookes (11.1.2014)
thesweetcheat
thesweetcheat Mar 6, 2014
Image of Coed-Pen-Maen Common (Cist) by thesweetcheat

The central cist, sadly almost filled-in since Juamei’s pictures.

Image credit: A. Brookes (11.1.2014)
thesweetcheat
thesweetcheat Mar 6, 2014
Image of Coed-Pen-Maen Common (Cist) by thesweetcheat

General view across the cairn circle, from approx. west. The stones of the kerb are small (one visible in foreground, one on northern arc in left-hand background) and the cist has just about disappeared into the ground and grass.

Image credit: A. Brookes (11.1.2014)
thesweetcheat
thesweetcheat Mar 6, 2014
Image of Coed-Pen-Maen Common (Cist) by juamei

There is some ‘genuine’ prehistory here, head down the park to the right from the rocking stone. Some way down you should find this, a lovely cist.

juamei
juamei Aug 7, 2007
Image of Coed-Pen-Maen Common (Cist) by juamei

There is some ‘genuine’ prehistory here, head down the park to the right from the rocking stone. Some way down you should find this, a lovely cist.

juamei
juamei Aug 7, 2007

Articles

Coed-Pen-Maen Common

C
CARL Jun 9, 2010

I visited this site winter (it started to snow!) and couldn’t find it. However, as I was about to give up, a couple were walking their dog and by luck they knew where it was. I can’t really give directions other than to say it is in the middle(ish) of the common and is quite small – about 2ft x 10 inches. Only the top couple of inches are sticking up above the grass. Good luck!

Miscellaneous

Coed-Pen-Maen Common
Cist
thesweetcheat
thesweetcheat Mar 6, 2014

Not just a cist, but a cist in the centre of a cairn circle (or very denuded kerbed cairn). And exciting finds were found there.

Coflein:

Eight stones, up to 0.5m high, define a kerb circle, within which is a cist, 1.6m by 0.6m.
Excavation, in 1830, which recovered burnt bone and ‘bronze buttons’ is thought to have removed the body of the cairn.

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