Llech Idris

Nearest town:
Ffestiniog (11km NW)
OS reference:
SH731311
OS sheet:
124
Latitude:
52° 51' 43.21 N
Longitude:
3° 53' 6.66 W
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Images

Image of Llech Idris (Standing Stone / Menhir) by GLADMAN

The great stone as it was @ October 1998....

Image credit: Robert Gladstone
GLADMAN
GLADMAN Sep 7, 2010
Image of Llech Idris (Standing Stone / Menhir) by GLADMAN

The great stone as it was @ October 1998....

Image credit: Robert Gladstone
GLADMAN
GLADMAN Jul 10, 2010
Image of Llech Idris (Standing Stone / Menhir) by postman

no wonder stenness is missing some stones

Image credit: christopher bickerton
postman
postman Jul 4, 2006
Image of Llech Idris (Standing Stone / Menhir) by Kammer

Taken 26th September 2004: Viewed from the south west, Llech Idris gets thoroughly inspected by William and Alfie.

Image credit: Simon Marshall
Kammer
Kammer Oct 19, 2005
Image of Llech Idris (Standing Stone / Menhir) by Kammer

Taken 26th September 2004: Viewed from the north east (approximately) with William giving some idea of scale (he was about 108cm tall at the time).

Image credit: Simon Marshall
Kammer
Kammer Oct 19, 2005
Image of Llech Idris (Standing Stone / Menhir) by Kammer

Taken 26th September 2004: Looking approximately south you get a good idea how thin the slab is.

Image credit: Simon Marshall
Kammer
Kammer Oct 19, 2005
Image of Llech Idris (Standing Stone / Menhir) by Kammer

Taken 26th September 2004: Llech Idris viewed from the west with Afon Gain running behind it and Mynydd Bach in the background. Bleak isn’t it!

Image credit: Simon Marshall
Kammer
Kammer Oct 19, 2005

Articles

Folklore

Llech Idris
Standing Stone / Menhir
Rhiannon
Rhiannon Dec 12, 2007

Lwyd, in the additions to ‘Camden’s Britannia’, informs us that in the year 1687 he had copied an inscription from a stone, called Bedh Porws, or Porus’s grave, near Lhech Idris.. the field is still called maes y bedd, or the field of the grave.

It is now chiefly covered with potatoes; and I cannot but think that the poor farmer, who cannot speak a word of English, hath merit with the antiquarian world, as the stone is placed very inconveniently in the centre of his present crop, nor would it be difficult at all to remove it.

Lwyd very truly states that Porius’s monument is to be found near Lhech Idrys. This name signifies Idrys’s stone, which is to be seen about a quarter of a mile to the south of Maes y bedd. It is a single upright stone of about five feet high, situated not far westward from a brook which runs through a valley opening many miles to the southward. At the end of this valley may be seen Cader Idrys in a clear day, which is the highest mountain of Merionethshire, and is supposed to signify Idrys’s chair.

Idrys was a giant formerly in this part of Wales, and the tradition is, that he kicked a stone from the top of Cader Idrys which fell where Lhech Idrys, or Idrys’s stone, is now to be found. Many such kicks by a giant would solve most of the difficulties with regard to Stonehenge.

I am, &c.
Daines Barrington.

A letter from 1770 to Mr Gough, collected in
‘Illustrations of the Literary History of the Eighteenth Century’ by J Nichols.
books.google.co.uk/books?id=TEcJAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA588

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