Cerrig y Cledd

Nearest town:
Barmouth (4km SSW)
OS reference:
SH642196
OS sheet:
124
Latitude:
52° 45' 23.42 N
Longitude:
4° 0' 45.13 W
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Image of Cerrig y Cledd (Standing Stone / Menhir) by postman

Cerrig y Cledd, once surrounded by trees but for the time being only half surrounded, looking East north east.

Image credit: Chris Bickerton
postman
postman Jan 6, 2013
Image of Cerrig y Cledd (Standing Stone / Menhir) by postman

Looking west, if not for the trees we should be able to see Cerrig Arthur stone circle

Image credit: Chris Bickerton
postman
postman Jan 6, 2013
Image of Cerrig y Cledd (Standing Stone / Menhir) by postman

As time ran out this was as far as I got, it looks like a bugger to get to, but good to get there in the end.

Image credit: Chris Bickerton
postman
postman Nov 14, 2011

Articles

Cerrig y Cledd

postman
postman Jan 6, 2013

I’ve wanted to come here for at least a decade, since I first saw it on the map during my first trips round Cader Idris, then in 2011 I got as close as the small car park by the lake and modern standing stone. This time I got there early, with bikes and a bag full of determination.
From the car, head north on the tarmac’d road then turn right up hill to a house that might be called Caegwian, From there a footpath goes north and southeast, go north. Shortly the path joins the pan forestation track, its rough in places but a 4x4 could pass along it. At the top of the track is another information board, it is here that we enter the dark forest to find the sword in the stone (more about this coming soon). From the info board follow the track west then south then east, the stone will appear on the right hand side of the track. The track is very muddy and flooded in places, we got a bit wet and dirty but the bikes were very wet and dirty. Look at my suit!

Since Idwals picture the trees all around and south of the stone have been felled and removed, new trees are growing with in feet of the stone. Cerrig Y Cledd (the stone of the sword) is about five feet tall and looks to be mostly made of quartz. There is no view south so the wonderful vistas around Cader Idris are blocked by a slight rise in the land. However the stone circle of Cerrig Arthur (well known for his sword) would have been visible if not for trees, and the stone would have been perhaps visible on the horizon from there, well, maybe not on the horizon. The sword in the stone glacial erratic is about 250 meters north, well just east of north actually. But don’t try finding it from here through the forest you will get lost, retrace the track and go in by the information board.

A very good stone, worth the effort, and the long wait, probably best visiting after a prolonged dry spell.

Cerrig y Cledd

Idwal
Idwal Jun 26, 2006

Drove up to the end of the tarmacced lane at SH641192 and then had a 15 minute walk N along the track at the edge of the forest, NW along a footpath through the forest and then S and E along forest tracks.

The stone 1.4m high, 0.46 m wide and 0.35m deep stands at the S side of the track. It is really well disguised amongst the trees around it and at first glance looks just like a tree stump with its covering of moss and vertical bands of grey and brown looking like bark.

I tried unsuccessfully to find the glacial erratic with the supposed sword imprint listed as Cerrig y Cledd (North) in the Megalithic Portal. I could see no sign of it in the relatively thin forest up to 100m north of the stone but did not venture into the denser forest further north.

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