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71 posts
Bache Hill and the Whimble Round Barrow(s) |
10 posts
Banc Cynnydd, Cwmdeuddwr Cairn(s) |
7 posts
1 site Banc Trehesglog, Cwmdeuddwr Stone Row / Alignment |
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14 posts
Banc Ystrad-Wen Barrow / Cairn Cemetery |
12 posts
Beacon Hill Barrow / Cairn Cemetery |
6 posts
The Beacon (Llandrindod) Cairn(s) |
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17 posts
Beddau Folau Chambered Cairn |
4 posts
Beggar's Bush Round Barrow(s) |
17 posts
Black Mixen Round Barrow(s) |
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1 post
Blaen Henllan Cairn(s) |
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Briddel Felen Standing Stone Standing Stone / Menhir |
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Broomy Hill Standing Stone / Menhir |
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Bryn yr Hydd
Enclosure
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12 posts
Bryn y Maen Stone Row / Alignment |
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Bryn y Maen fallen monolith Standing Stone / Menhir |
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27 posts
Burfa Camp Hillfort |
11 posts
Carneddau Hill (Builth Wells) Round Cairn |
14 posts
Carneddau North (Builth Wells) Cairn(s) |
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12 posts
Carn Nant-y-Ffald Cist |
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Carn Ricet Cairn(s) |
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Carn Wen, Cwmdeuddwr Round Cairn |
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11 posts
Carn Wen, Garth (Llanwrthwl) Round Cairn |
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Carn Wen (Gwastedyn) Cairn(s) |
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Carregwiber Hillfort |
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7 posts
Carregwiber (stone 1) Standing Stone / Menhir |
7 posts
Carreg Bica Round Cairn |
24 posts
Castle Bank Hillfort |
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18 posts
Castle Ring Hillfort |
10 posts
Cefn-y-Gaer Hillfort |
9 posts
Cefn Ceidio Round Barrow(s) |
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6 posts
Cefn Llyn Standing Stone / Menhir |
4 posts
Cefn Wylfre Stone Circle |
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Church of St Michael Christianised Site |
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Clap yr Arian Cairn(s) |
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Clyro Court Farm Long Barrow |
6 posts
Creggin Cairn(s) |
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5 posts
Crossfield Lane barrow Round Barrow(s) |
6 posts
Crossfoot Farm Standing Stone / Menhir |
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Crossway Barrow Round Barrow(s) |
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12 posts
Crugyn Gwyddel Cairn(s) |
6 posts
Cwmade Round Barrow(s) |
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Cwm Berwyn, Carneddau (Builth Wells) Promontory Fort |
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30 posts
Cwm Bwch, Great Rhos Round Barrow(s) |
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Cwm Maerdy Standing Stone / Menhir |
5 posts
Cwm Stone Standing Stone / Menhir |
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9 posts
Domen-ddu Cairn(s) |
11 posts
Esgair Beddau, Cwmdeuddwr Cairn(s) |
7 posts
Esgair y Llwyn, Cwmdeuddwr Cairn(s) |
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6 posts
Fedw Stone Circle |
9 posts
Fedw Llwyd Round Barrow(s) |
6 posts
Ffrwd Stone Standing Stone / Menhir |
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59 posts
The Four Stones Stone Circle |
19 posts
Gelli Hill Stone Circle |
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Gelli Hill Cairn Cairn(s) |
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8 posts
Gelli Hill stone Standing Stone / Menhir |
16 posts
Giants Grave Barrow / Cairn Cemetery |
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Gilfach Hill Enclosure |
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7 posts
Gilwern Hill Cairn(s) |
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Glascwm Mill Cottages Round Barrow(s) |
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Graig Camp Hillfort |
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Groddwr Bank Round Barrow(s) |
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Gwern Dyfnant Round Barrow(s) |
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Harpton Court Barrow Round Barrow(s) |
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3 posts
Hindwell Cursus Cursus (Destroyed) |
4 posts
Hindwell Enclosure Enclosure |
8 posts
Hindwell round barrow group Barrow / Cairn Cemetery |
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1 post
Hundred House Common Round Barrow(s) |
20 posts
Kinnerton Court Stone I Standing Stone / Menhir |
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Kinnerton Court Stone II Standing Stone / Menhir |
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8 posts
Knobley Standing Stone / Menhir |
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Knobley Brook barrow Round Barrow(s) |
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Lane Farm Round Barrow(s) |
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9 posts
Lan Fraith Round Barrow(s) |
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Larch Grove Standing Stone / Menhir |
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Little Hill cairn II Cairn(s) |
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Little Hill cairn III Cairn(s) |
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Little Hill VII Round Barrow(s) |
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Llandegley Rocks Ancient Village / Settlement / Misc. Earthwork |
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6 posts
Llanerch Stone Cup Marked Stone |
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Llanfihangel Nant Melan Round Barrow(s) |
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Lluest Aber Caethon, Cwmdeuddwr Round Barrow(s) |
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4 posts
Llyn Dwr Standing Stone / Menhir |
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Llyn Gwyn Enclosure |
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Maengwyngweddw Standing Stone / Menhir |
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Maesgwyn Mound Round Barrow(s) |
25 posts
Marteg Valley Kerbed Cairn |
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Milton Hill Round Barrow(s) |
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3 posts
Old Stone (Pant-y-Caregl) Standing Stone / Menhir |
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Pawl Hir Ring Cairn |
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Pegwn Bach Cairn(s) |
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2 posts
Pennant Pound Round Barrow(s) |
1 post
Pen Cae Newydd Round Barrow(s) |
10 posts
Rhiw Afon, Cwmdeuddwr Round Cairn |
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22 posts
Rhiw Porthnant Barrow / Cairn Cemetery |
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Rhos-Goch Chapel Round Barrow(s) |
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Shepherd's Tump Round Barrow(s) |
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6 posts
Shepherd's Well cross dyke Dyke |
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Six Stones Stone Circle |
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Twyn-y-Big Round Cairn |
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Twyn y Garth
Hillfort
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Ty Lettice Round Barrow(s) |
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The Van Barrow / Cairn Cemetery |
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2 posts
Walton Green Cursus Cursus (Destroyed) |
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Wern-y-Gaufron Round Barrow(s) |
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Windy Hall Round Barrow(s) |
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Womaston Causewayed Enclosure |
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Y Gaer, Llanddewi Ystradenni Hillfort |
Sites of disputed antiquity:
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Hindwell Pool |
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Hindwell Stone Standing Stone / Menhir |
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Maen Serth Standing Stone / Menhir |
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2 posts
Moll Walbee's Stone Standing Stone / Menhir |
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Old Radnor Church Christianised Site |
Miscellaneous |
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Maybe it's relevant, maybe it's not, but there are a number of distinctive conical hills near Old Radnor: Stanner Rocks, Worsell Wood, Hanter Hill. Apparently these contain some of the oldest rocks in Wales - Precambrian and 700 million years old. Old Radnor was called 'Pen-y-Graig': 'head of the rock'. The geology means Stanner Rocks supports some pretty strange and rare plants, and it was said: "by the common people it is called the Devil's Garden." You can't help wondering where the stones for the local monuments came from. Probably. "The Cambrian Balnea: Or Guide to the Watering Places of Wales, Marine and Inland" by Thomas Jeffery Llewelyn Prichard (1825). |
Posted by Rhiannon12th September 2007ce |
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Extracted from "Betwixt & Between" by Mary Dodsworth and Iain Steele in "The Cauldron" no.115), themselves drawing on "The Folklore of Radnorshire" by Roy Palmer :- Beguildy church, on raised site by River Teme, probably a B.A. settlement. Bleddfa church on a B.A. mound. Bryngwyn: The Six Stones near N boundary of village is a stone circle of ~12 stones. Llanfihangel Cascob cut into a burial mound. Llanfihangel Cefnllys a B.A. site. I.A. fort on Cefnllys Hill turned into mediaeval castle. Discoed church south of a five millenium old yew - a circular site about an antient mound and a Neolithic tree. Disserth church a circular site with a well nearby formerly dressed with mistletoe. Kinnerton church within an earlier circular wall. By the road to Old Radnor there is a standing stone. Llanbister church has tower behind altar, at the E end. Sulfur well overlooks church. Llandegley church very late, healing well on Cymaron riverbank side nearby. Llandeio Graban tower bedroom for last Welsh dragon. Llandewi Ystradenni. Giant's burial at Tomen Beddugre nearby. Llanelwedd church has thity tumuli within half-a-mile and a lost standing stone. Llanfihangel Nant Melan ringed by ancient yews, with one holding solitary remnant of a stone circle. Nantmel church has 6 two millenia old yews in precinct. 2 standing stones called the Devil's Clogs on nearby Tan-y-cefn farm. Old Radnor church font cut from fifth stone of Four Stones group at edge of Kinnerton-Walton road. In 1994 a vast stone circle revealed from the air in the Radnor valley - probably defined by 1400 oaks, it covers 34 hectares but doesn't have a precise location ! Pilleth church has well behind that was resorted to by people with eye problems. St. Harmon chuch first dedication in Wales, but he wasn't buried in Bedd Harmon near it. Two stone circles also near, though Cwm y Saeson only has two stones left out of 14 and that on Hendre Rhiw farm only one of 5. Dogs and people treated by sulfur spring on Temple Bar farm. Whitton church lies in an earlier circular llan. |
Posted by wideford5th March 2005ce |
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Banc Trehesglog, Cwmdeuddwr (Cist) — Miscellaneous |
| Located within sight of the nearby stone row, this well-preserved cist - like its neighbour - is not marked upon current OS mapping... forming but one of the Cwmdeuddwr Hill's many, many prehistoric gems just waiting to be discovered. |
Posted by GLADMAN13th May 2023ce |
Twyn-y-Big (Round Cairn) — Images (click to view fullsize) |
 
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Posted by GLADMAN 8th October 2022ce |
Twyn-y-Big (Round Cairn) — Miscellaneous |
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Set amongst the glorious scenery of eastern Mynydd Epynt... away from all the (unfortunately, what with Communist lunatics murdering civilians for fun in Ukraine, all too necessary) squaddie training business... south of Builth Wells, this mutilated round cairn might well draw no attention at all from those passing by upon the very minor road... even from the antiquarian-minded lacking a 1:25k OS map. Combine a visit here with the even more obscure Banc y Celyn stone circle to the north, however, and you're laughing. Yeah, the scenery is superb, the backdrop of The Black Mountains, viewed in profile while approaching across the hilltop to the northwest, being arguably the finest The Citizen Cairn is aware of. That of The Brecon Beacons, enjoyed by diverting the gaze a tad to the south, is worth writing home about, too. If only one still did those things. As for the monument... OK, it is very 'messed about with'. Nevertheless, several orthostats strongly suggest a 'chambered cairn' of some description to me. Coflein notes: "A much disturbed round barrow with stone structural elements.... approximately 10m in diameter and up to 0.5m high..... Three edge-set stones are visible and appear to be part of a structure within the cairn... To the south of the barrow there is a large edge-set slab 1.05 x 0.15 x 0.6m high, aligned northeast-southwest..." [J.J. Hall, Trysor, 16/2/2009] As it was, I happened to be in the locale for 'logistical reasons', but was more than happy to reprise my original 2016 visit and take advantage of the fabulous summer evening light to hang out for a while. |
Posted by GLADMAN 30th July 2022ce |
Twyn-y-Big (Round Cairn) — Images |
     
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