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In summer finery (but sadly not weather).

The Andle Stone, surrounded by beautiful summer blooms.

The Andle Stone.

From this side, the shape of the stone reminds me very much of one of the marriage partners at the Cove, Stanton Drew.

The Cork Stone.

A view of T2, showing the exposed rubble construction as left after Heathcote’s excavation and the exposed central slabs.

Prominent cairn T2.

General view across Stanton Moor South, almost invisible in summer heather. The direction of the shot is towards Stanton Moor Central.

Another view of the T25 cairn.

Cairn to the east and down slope from the Moor’s trig point. Appears to be T25 on Heathcote’s numbering?

Looking through the southern entrance into the centre of the circle.

The circle, still with sheep guardian, from the King’s Stone outlier.

Here’s looking at ewe – the immovable guardian of the circle.

Well preserved bank on west side of circle.

Two visible stones. The stone in the foreground is situated on the left of the SW entrance.

The stone in the background appears to be part of the disturbed central cairn (difficult to see with the green-on-green).

Looking across the embanked circle from the east.

Looking back towards the barrow along the linear feature.

Another view of the linear feature, as it curves downslope at its eastern end.

View of the possible prehistoric boundary feature. Gurnard’s Head Iron Age cliff castle is visible in the centre of the picture.

Large kerb stones.

Looking towards Carn Galva and Watch Croft.

Large quartz pebble visible in the remains of the mound.

Close-up of the southern section of kerb, showing the deliberate inward lean of the kerb stones.

It’s not clear if the visible slab in the centre was a side slab or a cap.

The centre of the barrow. The main intact section of kerb is on the south side of the barrow, on the north there is a larger boulder (right of picture). The cist is visible in the ferny area in the centre.

Looking west towards Pendeen.

The south-western arc of small stones.

The two Maen Mawr “followers”.

Some of the small stones aligned on Maen Mawr.

Maen Mawr.

Looking north up the valley.

Looking down the Tawe valley. The block of Maen Mawr is just about visible to the right of centre ahead.

The barrow, which looks pretty intact.

With the largest stone (NE corner) in the foreground.

Looking down the Tawe valley, towards Maen Mawr (not intervisible!).

Looking eastwards to Waun Leuci standing stone (the top is just visible from the setting). The road is very close – next to the dry stone wall.

The four stones around the tiny boulder.

Looking towards Maen Mawr (which you can’t see from here).

The southern “face” of the stone.

Yellow lichen on the east side of the stone.

Looking west, with Fan Brycheiniog behind.

The flat western side of the stone.

The “witch” stone passed on the way from Llyn y Fan Fawr.

The cairn (left of centre skyline) as seen on the way back to Twr y Fan Foel.

Close up of the larger stones in the kerb – they look like they’re lying on the surface but they are actually buried.

Close-up of the centre of the cairn and what I took to be the cist referred to on Coflein.

Part of the kerb – Picws Du behind.

The excavated cairn, with Twr y Fan Foel behind to the right. The summit of Fan Gyhirych can just be seen to the right of centre and even hazier to the left is Pen y Fan/Corn Du.