Llwyn-on-Fach

Nearest town:
New Quay (3km W)
OS reference:
SN409596
OS sheet:
146
Latitude:
52° 12' 40.14 N
Longitude:
4° 19' 44 W
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Images

Image of Llwyn-on-Fach (Standing Stone / Menhir) by Kammer

Taken 9th July 2005: The stone from the south west (very approximately speaking).

Image credit: Simon Marshall
Kammer
Kammer Oct 5, 2006
Image of Llwyn-on-Fach (Standing Stone / Menhir) by Kammer

Taken 24th October 2002: The stone stands in a car park, but it was empty when we visited. I quite fancy coming back in the summer to see what it looks like surrounded by cars!

Image credit: Simon Marshall
Kammer
Kammer Oct 30, 2002
Image of Llwyn-on-Fach (Standing Stone / Menhir) by Kammer

Taken 24th October 2002: This is the stone from the east, with Lou obligingly giving an idea of scale. On this side of the stone are embedded two small lumps of metal.

Image credit: Simon Marshall
Kammer
Kammer Oct 30, 2002
Image of Llwyn-on-Fach (Standing Stone / Menhir) by Kammer

Taken 24th October 2002: This is the stone from the west. You can see where someone has embedded something metalalic into the stone in days of yore. Presumably it was part of a fence at some stage in its history.

Image credit: Simon Marshall
Kammer
Kammer Oct 30, 2002

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Llwyn-on-Fach

Kammer
Kammer Oct 31, 2002

Visited 24th October 2002: We originally set out to find two sites, but the first eluded us completely. When we got to Cei Bach I was expecting Llwyn-on-Fach to be something small and obscure, which is probably why we drove straight past it at first.

Second time around I walked along the road and spotted the stone on the edge of a grass covered car park (bloody obvious it was!). By local standards it’s quite large, so I was pleasantly surprised. On the eastern side of the stone are two lumps of metal, circular in cross-section, embedded in the stone. There is another on the western side of the stone.

I’m guessing that the stone may have been part of a boundary at some stage, and these pieces of metal indicate where the fence met the stone. I’m not sure whether this idea tallies with the stone’s existing position though, or the irregular heights at which the metal is embedded in the stone.

Llwyn-on-Fach is thought to be a Bronze Age standing stone, but reading between the lines, it looks like not everyone is convinced of its antiquity. The stone isn’t marked on the OS, and it isn’t listed on the RCAHMW database.

This was going to be Alfie’s first antiquarian expedition, but as he was asleep when we arrived so we decided to leave him in the car.

Miscellaneous

Llwyn-on-Fach
Standing Stone / Menhir
Kammer
Kammer Jan 17, 2003

I contacted Cambria Archaeology (Dyfed Archaeological Trust) to check up on their records for Llwyn-on-Fach, because nobody else seems to list it. They sent me a response by email, including this description of the stone by someone with the initials GW, alluding to metal rings fixed to the stone (no longer there):

It lies on level ground in pasture now used as a caravan site. An elongated, tapering stone 1.8m high and 0.6 x 0.3m across max, and leaning at an angle. Attached to it are broken metal rings for hanging a gate. It makes no sense as a gate-post in relation to modern field boundaries (which are unchanged since the 1st edition 25” map). It is very possibly on old gate-post re-erected in its present position as a pseudo standing stone.
GW. 1995.
The person who emailed this to me seemed more inclined to think that the stone might be a Bronze Age standing stone adapted for use as a gatepost, rather than a gatepost mistaken for a standing stone. Based on what I’ve seen I agree with him. It’s ridiculously large for a gatepost.

The Cambria Archaeology chap pointed out possible evidence for Bronze Age activity in the area from the local place names. The name of the nearby village Llaingarreglwyd translates as narrow strip of land of the grey stone and the name Ty Carn belonging to a nearby cottage means Cairn House.

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