Buwch a’r Llo and Mynydd March

Nearest town:
Aberystwyth (14km WSW)
OS reference:
SN722833
OS sheet:
135
Latitude:
52° 25' 56.19 N
Longitude:
3° 52' 48.11 W
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Images

Image of Buwch a’r Llo and Mynydd March (Standing Stones) by thesweetcheat

Looking southeast. The stream of the valley which these stones stand in is a tributary of the Afon Rheidol.

Image credit: A. Brookes (28.5.2022)
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thesweetcheat May 6, 2023
Image of Buwch a’r Llo and Mynydd March (Standing Stones) by GLADMAN

The larger monolith in the fading light of dusk...

Image credit: Robert Gladstone
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GLADMAN Nov 22, 2015
Image of Buwch a’r Llo and Mynydd March (Standing Stones) by GLADMAN

A further stone stands beyond the cattle grid......

Image credit: Robert Gladstone
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GLADMAN Oct 1, 2012
Image of Buwch a’r Llo and Mynydd March (Standing Stones) by Kammer

Taken 9th November 2003: Another shot in the morning sunshine, this time from the east.

Image credit: Simon Marshall
Kammer
Kammer May 26, 2004
Image of Buwch a’r Llo and Mynydd March (Standing Stones) by Kammer

Taken 9th November 2003: Mynydd March in the morning sunshine on my way to work. This view is from the north east.

Image credit: Simon Marshall
Kammer
Kammer May 26, 2004
Image of Buwch a’r Llo and Mynydd March (Standing Stones) by Kammer

Taken 9th November 2003: The stones viewed from the north east, lit up by the morning sunshine. I took this photo on my way to work.

Image credit: Simon Marshall
Kammer
Kammer May 26, 2004
Image of Buwch a’r Llo and Mynydd March (Standing Stones) by Kammer

Taken 3rd July 2003: Mynydd March stone from the north east.

Image credit: Simon Marshall
Kammer
Kammer Aug 1, 2003
Image of Buwch a’r Llo and Mynydd March (Standing Stones) by Kammer

Taken 3rd July 2003: The Mynydd March stone from the south west. Things have changed a bit in the area to the north of the stone because the forest has recently been clear-felled.

Image credit: Simon Marshall
Kammer
Kammer Aug 1, 2003
Image of Buwch a’r Llo and Mynydd March (Standing Stones) by Kammer

Taken 20th July 2002: Here are the Buwch a’r Llo stones close up. Whenever I drive through here I stop the car and say hello to them. There’s rarely anyone around, so I don’t have to worry about being locked away!

Just visible above the Llo stone (i.e. the smaller of the two), below the light grey horizon, is Dinas.

Image credit: Simon Marshall
Kammer
Kammer Aug 23, 2002
Image of Buwch a’r Llo and Mynydd March (Standing Stones) by Kammer

Taken July 20th 2002: This shot gives you an idea just how close to the road the Buwch a’r Llo stones are. You can’t really miss them. They’re on the right-hand side of the road after the cattlegrid, coming from the Penrhyn Coch direction.

Image credit: Simon Marshall
Kammer
Kammer Aug 23, 2002
Image of Buwch a’r Llo and Mynydd March (Standing Stones) by Kammer

Taken 20th July 2002: Mynydd March is easy to miss if you’re casually driving past, especially in the summer when the grass is tall. Coming from the direction of Penrhyn Coch, it’s on the right-hand side of the road before the cattlegrid.

Image credit: Simon Marshall
Kammer
Kammer Aug 23, 2002

Articles

Buwch a’r Llo and Mynydd March

Kammer
Kammer Aug 1, 2003

The Mynydd March stone, along with it’s neighbours Buwch a’r Llo, has the easiest access of any standing stone in north Ceredigion. It’s right next to the road, and there’s no boundary fence.

The stone has two distinctive cracks running diagonal across it, presumably caused by weathering. From some angles it looks very strange, like some sort of a half peeled megalithic fruit. Of the three stones on the verge of the road, Mynydd March is the smallest and the easiest to miss as you drive past.

Buwch a’r Llo and Mynydd March

Kammer
Kammer Sep 25, 2002

These stones are on one of my routes home, so I see them regularly. They are the best known and most easily accessible of a large number of Bronze Age standing stones in the area.

The Buwch a’r Llo (or cow and calf) stones are on the east side of the cattle grid and the Mynydd March stone is on the west side. All three stones are on the southern side of the road (i.e. on your right coming from Penrhyn Coch), and they are right next to the road.

Watch out for idiots driving scrambler motorbikes and 4x4s in this area. It feels relatively safe walking on the road, but the ‘off-road’ fraternity don’t tend to have their brains engaged when they drive along here.

Miscellaneous

Buwch a’r Llo and Mynydd March
Standing Stones
GLADMAN
GLADMAN Nov 13, 2023

Interestingly, Coflein reckons the ‘Mynydd March’ stone may once have been known as Mynydd Tarw... so once upon a time, we may well have had ‘Bull, Cow and Calf’ stones:

“A shattered monolith is located just off the south edge of a road, set back from it about 3m in what is now a ditch between the road and an old field bank which forms part of a forestry boundary. The stone is in three (visible) pieces. The largest is 1m high, 0.7m wide and 0.5m thick. Two much smaller pieces have become detached from each of two sides of the stone.
The stone is portrayed on Lewis Morris’s map of 1744 where it is named Maen Tarw. About 100m along the road to the east is Buwch a’r Llo standing stone pair (which is not shown on the 1744 map. However, the latter are shown on Gogerddan Estate map of 1788, annotated `Maen Tarw?. [David Leighton, RCAHMW, 7 February 2013]”

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