Taken 8th August 2002: Here's the standing stone, complete with sundial. Previous to 1909 the stone stood outside the original circular churchyard.
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Taken 8th September 2002: Looking north-east, here's the standing stone with the church in the background. You can just make out the remains of the original churchyard perimeter on the left-hand side of the photo, now just a denuded bank (see plan).
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Taken 8th September 2002: This is a detail from the sign outside St Tyssilio's showing a plan of the churchyard (the weird colouration in the corner is shadow):
1) Stone lined spring
2) Present church structure
3) Standing stone with sundial planted on top of it
4) Old bank where churchyard perimeter was before its extension in 1909
This sign was created by St David's University College (now University of Wales, Lampeter) so I probably shouldn't be posting it without permission. Sorry guys!
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Visited 8th September 2002: This Bronze Age standing stone is very easy to find, because someone has conveniently built a churchyard around it!
We entered the churchyard through an iron gate, and I began scouring the area for a sign of the stone. Louise was a bit more canny than me, and spotted it right there by the gate! To be fair, it's not what we were expecting, because someone has concreted a sundial to the top of the stone! This is one of the weirdest adaptations of a megalith that I've seen so far.
St Tyssilio's church is an early Celtic Christian site, with the compulsory holy well (nearby) and round churchyard. Judging by the standing stone, it was a ceremonial site long before it was Christianised. There's a notice near the churchyard gate that explains some of the history of the church, and according to this a second megalith was discovered during the 1890s during work on the church itself. This stone was so big that they left it in place and built over it!
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