Monument 280

Nearest town:
Penmaenmawr (1km NNW)
OS reference:
SH72197463
OS sheet:
115
Latitude:
53° 15' 10.45 N
Longitude:
3° 54' 57.51 W
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Image of Monument 280 (Standing Stones) by postman

Looks like these two prone stones nearest us might fit nicely into the gap behind them.

Image credit: Chris Bickerton
postman
postman Dec 22, 2015
Image of Monument 280 (Standing Stones) by GLADMAN

For what it’s worth I’d agree these look very much like kerb stones.....

Image credit: Robert Gladstone
GLADMAN
GLADMAN Oct 29, 2013
Image of Monument 280 (Standing Stones) by GLADMAN

Tal-y-Fan rises beyond this megalithic curiosity.

Image credit: Robert Gladstone
GLADMAN
GLADMAN Oct 29, 2013
Image of Monument 280 (Standing Stones) by GLADMAN

The monument’s proximity to the fabulous Druid’s Circle can be seen here...

Image credit: Robert Gladstone
GLADMAN
GLADMAN Oct 29, 2013
Image of Monument 280 (Standing Stones) by thesweetcheat

A row of contiguous boulders appear to form a kerb on the western side.

Image credit: A. Brookes/Bloss (2.7.2011)
thesweetcheat
thesweetcheat Jul 24, 2011
Image of Monument 280 (Standing Stones) by thesweetcheat

Looking north, four uprights form a line along the eastern side of the “monument”.

Image credit: A. Brookes/Bloss (2.7.2011)
thesweetcheat
thesweetcheat Jul 24, 2011
Image of Monument 280 (Standing Stones) by thesweetcheat

Looking west, the monument is a confused jumble of uprights and recumbent blocks.

Image credit: A. Brookes/Bloss (2.7.2011)
thesweetcheat
thesweetcheat Jul 24, 2011
Image of Monument 280 (Standing Stones) by postman

The four standing stones on the left, Row ?
arc of outer stone circle ? or meddled with and therefore unknowable without excavation.

Image credit: Chris Bickerton
postman
postman Apr 13, 2010
Image of Monument 280 (Standing Stones) by Moth

Looking west, between Moelfre & Penmaen Mawr

Image credit: Tim Clark
Moth
Moth Apr 26, 2005
Image of Monument 280 (Standing Stones) by treaclechops

The ‘Jumbled Heap’ or “Cefn Coch Stone Circle” (my suggestion).

Image credit: Rebecca van der Putt 2004
treaclechops
treaclechops Nov 7, 2004

Articles

Monument 280

thesweetcheat
thesweetcheat Apr 5, 2015

Blossom has Frances Lynch’s excellent Gwynedd guide with her and we have a quick look to see what else there is around here. The prominent jumble of upright stones visible to the west is the most obvious place to head next. Unfortunately we don’t realise that Circle 278 is hidden away over a little crest and miss it completely. Drat.

Monument 280 (these numbers suggest a spectacular profusion of other sites crowding around us) is very difficult to get a handle on, even when you’re standing in its midst. A row of four uprights run north-south across the monument, while on the west an apparent kerb forms its edge. Shapes and patterns can be discerned, but are contradicted by other patterns. Truly an enigma.

Monument 280

postman
postman Apr 13, 2010

At least they bothered to call it a monument, it doesn’t even get mentioned in AB’s stone circle guide, and Coflein doesn’t have a description but it does have four pics and the vague title of Penmaenmawr stone circle, it is much more than any of this it’s North Wales most mysterious “monument”. No one seems to know what it was, three of the stones seem to be in a straight line but in amongst the megalithic melee
there is what looks like to me another little stone circle or kerb for a cairn.
What ever it turns out to be, for now it is an enigma more worthy of an excavation than any other “monument” up here. It was obviously an important something and is in a prominent position, Tal y Fan is long and rocky (with two notches for alignments?) and dominates the south western aspect, from the stones we can see the big Druids circle and turning round down to the Cors y Carneddau.

Monument 280

skins
skins Jan 22, 2008

There are smaller cairns all over this area. Beyond the hill near the stones, on rough ground can be found the sight of a WW2 plane crash (the Bachelor Baby).

Monument 280

skins
skins Jan 22, 2008

The collection of stones can be found just a short step away form the main circle, if you’re setting off to walk across the moor on a small track in the direction on Tal y fan, in just a minute you will go through these stones.

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