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Looking northwest.

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

Just a perfect day.

Towards Tal-y-Fan.

The Deity Stone, looking across the circle to the Stone of Sacrifice.

Looking NW on a perfect summer’s day.

Seen from the west.

Approaching the mini-circle.

Pinkish quartz block at the base of the stone.

Looking north. Note quartz stone at the base.

The locals seem unimpressed by our interest.

Red Farm circle in the middle distance left of centre, Tal y Fan behind.

Graig Lwyd from path below Foel Lus.

With adjacent stone in the foreground.

The extraordinary capstone, like something worn in Pirates of the Caribbean.

The chamber on its long mound.

The pair of uprights by the gate, cruelly separated by fencing.

Looking out through the original portal entrance.

Inside the chamber. The gnarled portal stone reminded me of a camel.

Looking from the western end of the mound towards the chamber. In the foreground but not particularly visible are small stumps of a number of stone “alignments”, buried into the mound. Purpose unknown, needless to say.

The jumble of blocks on the west of the mound.

Nice bit of herringbone.

Showing the restored drystone walling of the horns and forecourt.

Pylon? What pylon?

The roofing slabs of the chamber.

With hay-making in full flow.

Pointier aspect of the SW Piper.

Chunkier aspect of the SW Piper.

The NE Piper, with the SW Piper over the hedge beyond.

The NE Piper, with a backdrop of the West Penwith hills of Chapel Carn Brea, Bartinne and Caer Bran (all to the left of the stone) and across to Sancreed Beacon and the northern Moors, all topped with their own prehistoric remains.

Roofing slab on the southern entrance grave.

Inside the southern entrance grave.

The vegetation is starting to reclaim the southern entrance grave.

Showing the sloping nature of the site.

The stones of the northwestern side.

Looking north from the tallest stone.

The northern barrow.

Standing atop the northern barrow, looking up the slope to the southern barrow and contemplating how little I want to have to push back through the ring of gorse.

The bracken-covered northern barrow, surrounded by a dense ring of gorse. Looking north out to sea.

The southern barrow in midsummer, swamped in gorse.

Overgrown barrows, seen from the northwest.

One of the barrows, overgrown with dense gorse. Zennor Hill on the skyline, right.

Summer flowers 2.

Summer flowers.

Another section of outer wall.