There’s a ‘circle in there somewhere... but in my opinion all the better for its camouflage...
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Looking uphill to Moel Pearce.......
Peeling back the layers of time. Or something like that. It hasn’t come out too well, but more stone work was visible beneath the turf......
Nice bit of grass, that. Apparently there’s a ‘circle in there, too.
Looking north east to the northern reaches of the Berwyn mountains.
Small recumbent stone in the foreground.
looking northwest, Moel ty uchaf just out of view.
Coincidence ?
looking across the the circle to unnamed hilltop with rocky outcrops below.
Showing the man made drainage gully that runs through the circle.
Moel Pearce in the background, the standing stone is half way down on the left, but it can’t be made out.
Articles
This stone circle is less than a mile from the well known Moel ty uchaf, it’s not marked on any maps, nor is it in any of Burls books, but it is on the now god like Coflein, it is to me an amazing thing, that anyone with time and persistance
can find something that isnt generally known, any bump any wrinkle in the landscape can be identified through the magic of Coflein. Really can’t enthuse about it enough.
From Moel ty Uchaf turn and look up at the mountains, the path you partly used to get here carries on up the hill past a deforested conifer plantation, and then dissapears over the brow of the hill, if you dont have a personal transporter, youll have to walk there, I had a bike.
When the footpath goes through a gate with a stream running through it, either follow the path up the hill to Moel Pearce standing stone which is now visible as a white almost shining beacon on the hillside. Or turn right into the long boggy grass, with a fence on your right follow it up the gentle hill untill you see the stones on your left, four out of five stones still stand higher than the grass, but only just.
Coflein suggests a stone circle of six metres north to south, containing maybe eight stones, none more than a metre tall, only five stones now remain, one small stone has fallen, but its so tiny as to appear as a modern intrusion. The other four are, I thought quite impressive, after a bit of gardening, you know just pulling out all the old dead grass, making the stones more visible for photography and any subsequent visitors (smiles to him self wryly), and trying to find any other fallen stones, the man made drainage channel that hideiously bisects the circle
is said to have fallen stones in it but the channel has severely shrunk since cofleins last visit so the stones may now be under the squelchy ground, this place really should be looked after, if it was all neat and easier to see it might lose something, but would gain the same visiting rights as Tyfos and Moel ty uchaf.
The next time your at the latter do make the effort I beleive it is worth it
Sites within 20km of Cerrig Bwlch y fedw
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Moel Pearce
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Moel ty Uchaf
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Trawsnant
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Ffridd Camen, Y Berwyn
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Bwrdd Arthur
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Cwm Tywyll
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Pennant cairn
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Cwm Tywyll
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Penagored
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Cefn Penagored Ridge
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Cefn Penagored
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Bwlch Maen Gwynedd
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Nant Esgeiriau
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Tan-y-Coed
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Cader Berwyn
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Rhyd-y-Gethin
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Cader Berwyn cairn II
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Yr Aran
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Tyfos
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Moel Sych
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Yr Aran cairns
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Rhyd-y-Gethin (Cairns)
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Graig Yr Arian (Silver rock)
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Nant Croes-y-Wernen
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Branas Uchaf
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Cwm Rhiwiau
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Rhos y Beddau
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Rhos y Beddau
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Cerrig Beddau
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Gwerclas
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Carnedd Wen
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Gwernclas Mound
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Mynydd Tarw, Y Berwyn
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Afon Disgynfa
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Pen-Plaenau
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Moel Fferna
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Tyn-y-Cefn Cursus
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Corwen Cross
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Carreg y Big yn y Fach Rhewllyd
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Caer Eini
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Foel Cwm-Sian Llwyd
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Bedd Crynddyn
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Cefn Caer Euni Circles
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Garnedd Wen
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Glan Hafon cairn
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Caer Drewyn
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Craig ty-glas
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Craig Rhiwarth Cairn II
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Craig Rhiwarth Cairn I
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Craig Rhiwarth
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Cefn Ddwysarn Camp
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Cerrig Gwynion
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Owain Glyndwr’s Mount
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Cwm Main
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Carnedd Rhys Goch
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Coed-y-Bedo Standing Stone
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Tomen y Meirw
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Tomen y Gwyddel
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Llanrhaeadr-ym-Mochnant
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Craig yr Arian
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Carnedd Das Eithin
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Siglem Las
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Dinas Melin y Wig
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Carnedd Gerrig
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Garnedd Fawr (Foel Goch)
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Afon y Dolau Gwynion
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Maes Mochnant
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Moel y Gaer
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Caer Caradog
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Garw Fynydd
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Foel y Geifr
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Pant y Maen
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Cronglwyd Fawr
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Moel y Gamelin
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Carreg-y-tair Eglwys
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Ty Mawr Rhos Ganol
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Llwyn Bryn Dinas
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Maen Llwyd (Cloceinog)
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Moel y Garnedd, Gwastadros
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Llwynmawr
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Eliseg’s Pillar mound
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Bryn Beddau
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Rhoslydan
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Moel y Gadfa
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Castell Dinas Bran
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Graig Wea
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Creigiau Eglwyseg
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Bryn Du
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Capel Hiraethog
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Coed-y-Gaer (Oswestry Rural)
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Mynydd-y-Bryn
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Orsedd Wen
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Pincyn Llys
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Eglwyseg stone
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Eglwyseg kerb cairns A&B
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Eglwyseg
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Pen-y-Gaer (Efenechtyd)
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Craig Adwy Wynt
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Creigiau Eglwyseg
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Eglwyseg
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Hafod-y-Llan Isaf
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Cynynion
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Cyrn-y-Brain
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Garnedd Wen
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Selattyn Hill
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Eglwyseg mountain cairns I, II, III
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Carreg y Big (Selattyn)
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