Garn Lwyd Stone and Barrow Cemetery

Nearest town:
Aberystwyth (17km WSW)
OS reference:
SN752833
OS sheet:
135
Latitude:
52° 25' 58.68 N
Longitude:
3° 50' 9.32 W
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Image of Garn Lwyd Stone and Barrow Cemetery by Kammer

Taken 10th December 2002: This is a close up of the stone from the east. The angle of the shot makes the stone look bigger than it really is.

Image credit: Simon Marshall
Kammer
Kammer Dec 12, 2002
Image of Garn Lwyd Stone and Barrow Cemetery by Kammer

Taken 10th December 2002: This is the view of the stone from the road, looking west across the Rheidol Gorge towards Dinas Hillfort. The telegraph pole is a useful landmark if you’re trying to identify the stone (it has the number 23 on it). There’s a cairn behind the stone, but I’m not sure which one it is.

As an aside (and nothing to do with prehistory) you can clearly make out an angular object to the right of the summit on Dinas. This is a ventilation shaft for the underground tunnel that feeds water from the Nant-y-Moch Reservoir to the Rheidol Power Station. This tunnel is just over 4km long which I find amazing!

Image credit: Simon Marshall
Kammer
Kammer Dec 12, 2002
Image of Garn Lwyd Stone and Barrow Cemetery by Kammer

Taken 1st September 2002: I made a second visit to this site in as many days to take this photo, and check that this tiny stone is the only one that could possibly be the Garn Lwyd stone. Siloutted in the distance is Dinas Hillfort.

Image credit: Simon Marshall
Kammer
Kammer Sep 3, 2002

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Garn Lwyd Stone and Barrow Cemetery

Kammer
Kammer Sep 4, 2002

Visited 1st September 2002: I first spotted the Garn Lwyd standing stone on the 1:25000 OS map when I was planning a visit to Hirnant Circle just up the road. The stone is very small, and stands next to a cairn of the same name.

There’s no public right of way to the site itself, but the cairn is relatively easy to identify from the road if you have a map (it’s almost in line with the telegraph pole that has the number 23 on it). Once you’ve spotted the cairn you can just about see the stone from the road. It’s between the cairn and the perimeter fence, but it’s less than a metre high so you’ll have to look hard for it in amongst the reeds.

It’s worth noting that the OS Landranger map only marks the cairn itself, and although the 1:25,000 OS map has the stone marked on it, it’s placed too far north (at least that’s the only conclusion I could come to).

Garn Lwyd is the name of the cairn next to the stone, but it’s also shared by all the cairns in this group. The word garn means cairn in Welsh and lywd means sacred.

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