Mynydd Melyn

Nearest town:
Fishguard (6km W)
OS reference:
SN022362
OS sheets:
145, 157
Latitude:
51° 59' 18.56 N
Longitude:
4° 52' 51.93 W
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Image of Mynydd Melyn (Enclosure) by thesweetcheat

Mynydd Melyn (Yellow Mountain) from the east. The enclosure is on the left of the facing slopes, just about where the patch of shadow is. The little standing stone is on the rougher ground below.

Image credit: A. Brookes (24.9.2014)
thesweetcheat
thesweetcheat Nov 23, 2014

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Folklore

Mynydd Melyn
Enclosure
Rhiannon
Rhiannon Aug 18, 2006

There’s all sorts on the ‘yellow mountain’ – enclosures, cairns, possible standing stones.. and some of the stones round here had a strange reputation for curing people who had been bitten by mad dogs..

“[A] remedy consisted in a visit to the wonderful stone at Mynyddmelyn [William Howell, “Cambrian Superstitions,” pp. 23, 25.]. A bit of this stone reduced to a fine powder and mixed with milk was given to the sufferer and the cure “never failed.” Friends of the person bitten made a pilgrimage to the stone for the purpose of obtaining a small portion of it, or else the patient was conveyed to the stone, where, with bound hands and feet, he was forced to lick it.”

Quote from Marie Trevelyan’s “Folk-lore and folk-stories of Wales”. Published in 1909. Online at V Wales:
red4.co.uk/Folklore/trevelyan/welshfolklore/chapt22.htm

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