Blog focussing on the Sarn Cynfelyn causeway, a shingle and boulder bank stretching out 7 miles into the sea from Wallog, and in folklore a causeway leading to Caer Wyddno.
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Folklore associated with the drowned forest.
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Like Coflein? Impressed by Archwilio? Well now you can enjoy the data from both of them together. In one place. On a high quality mapping layer.
That's the end of sleep and bedtime for me then.
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Excellent photo of the exposed chamber during excavation. Only the roofing slabs and passage lintels can be seen now.
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A plan and description to help make sense of the jumbled stones of this monument.
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Brian John's (Mountainman) excellent website, with lovely pictures of the exposed timbers of the submerged forest.
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More on the lost stone circle on Salakee Down (on page 6).
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Lots of fascinating stuff, including names of rocks, legends, interesting stones, etc.
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Stay in the reconstructed roundhouse at Bodrifty.
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Description of this impressive site, occupied from the early Iron Age into the Middle Ages and boasting huge defences but badly threatened by erosion. Some typically excellent aerial photos too.
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Time Team report on the Gateholm dig.
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Description of the site with some great aerial photos. Great Castle Head is on a cliff-girt headland, roughly 160m north-south by up to 260m. It is divided from the mainland to the north by a line of two ramparts with a medial ditch, some 150m in length. Recent structures within this area include defence installations, a lighthouse and a possible folly.
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Site description and some excellent aerial photos.An enclosure complex, extending about 120m NNW-SSE by 60m, the various features being defined by low (up to 0.4m high) stony banks; at the centre of the complex, as mapped by RCAHMW (1979), is a circular structure, some 8.0m across, opening into a roughly 17.5m diameter enclosure on the east: examination of the latter enclosure showed that it had been constructed over an earlier shell-midden (Benson 1978); the site has produced much worked flint, along with iron-slag & possibly spindlewhorls: the complex, occupying a north-facing promontory, can apparently be linked to a wider pattern of relict field enclosure, although this is not certain.
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Great aerial photos of the site, showing the earthworks and setting.
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Extensive site description with lots of pictures.
The site was surveyed in detail by RCAHMW in 2009.
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Coflein has a picture.
And a description from David Leighton's visit in 1991, not much has changed:A much denuded round cairn located close to field walls is represented as a stony area about 18m in diameter with a height of up to 0.4m at the edges.
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The Lydstep pig – missing meal or ancestral offering?
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Photo of hut circle on Canmore.
On a terrace on a S-facing slope at the SW end of Gleann Bianasdail, beside the footpath to the summit of Slioch, there are the bracken-covered remains of a hut-circle, overlain by a shieling-hut and a small pen. The hut-circle measures 8.6m in diameter within a wall spread to 1.3m thick. No outer face is evident, but parts of the inner face survive, especially on the W and N, consisting of edge-set sandstone blocks up to 0.6m high, while a robber trench marks the line of that face on the S and E. Within the hut-circle there are the footings of a subrectangular shieling-hut, aligned NNW-SSE, and immediately beyond the robbed SSE arc of the hut-circle there is a small pen constructed of large stones.
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Exploring the submerged landscapes of Prehistoric Wales.
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Description and photos of the stone, possibly associated with stone circle and nearby cairn.
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"The fleeting hour of life of those who love the hills is quickly spent, but the hills are eternal. Always there will be the lonely ridge, the dancing beck, the silent forest; always there will be the exhilaration of the summits. These are for the seeking, and those who seek and find while there is still time will be blessed both in mind and body." Alfred Wainwright
"The movers move, the shakers shake, the winners write their history. But from high on the high hills, it all looks like nothing." Justin Sullivan
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