This stone, supoosedly marks the burial place of Ryalvran, who is said to have died here fighting for the recovery of his fathers land.
His opponent is unknown, although it’s thought he occupied Lescudjack Castle around 400-500AD.
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09/02 The remains of the chamber are in the spiky grass on the right.
This stone circle is mentioned on the 1998 1:25000 O.S map for Snowdon, but we had real diffuculty in finding it. Is it ruined? There are a lot of stones on the ground where the map says the circle is...
On the 18th September, a stone in the NW(ish) of the circle was on the floor next to it’s socket, 2 other stones were very close to ending up the same way.
I had one of those moments here. Stood in the long spiky grass next to the pile of stones, I saw what I reckoned was the remains of the chamber. But then I talked myself out of it, and didn’t take a pic. Found out later they are! Dog.
Just along the track from Maen-y-Bard, like Ironman says walk along the roman road from the YHA. Gives you a real feel for the place.
Excellent 5 stone ring, I’m speechless, I don’t know what too say....excellent.
09/02 Circle 275, the stones of the Druid’s Circle can just be made out on the horizon
The whole area around the satellite station is covered in these mounds, various sizes and states.
09/02 This slab that covers a cist has a cup mark and on the smaller piece a chevron design. Four other stones with cup marks on are now in Sheffield Museum.
I have been told this stone is everything from fallen, moved to a hedge, used a gatepost and only a stump remains. I recently found a photo of the stone from 1919 so its time to search the hedgerows.
The earthwork is getting on for a mile long running roughly East/West, burials have only been found on the circle side.
Although quite large 27m across it’s very hard to find the rubble ring of this robbed cairn...lost amongst the heather in summer.
An earthwork of an unknown date.
The section of the dyke sandwiched between the roads is the most impressive part.
There is an area called Smallfield 200m or so Southeast; a Bronze age/Romano-British Field system.
The whole has been badly disturbed by roads and walls, there is a rubble ring of a possible robbed cairn (Bar Dyke Ring )but it’s hard to pick out amongst the heather and a fence and track cut through it.
Worth a look if your between Ash Cabin and the circle at Ewden Beck.
09/02 There’s 4 of these stones around Gib Hill, John Barnatt suggests they are gateposts.
A unique site in the Peak, the bank is over 200m long with bulges at the northern and southern end. These bulges look like barrows added to each end but are just part of the bank.
On average the bank is about 1.5m high but is higher and wider to the north.
Pity about the drystone wall that runs its length and the small silage tank on the southern bulge. But it’s still well worth checking out.......
Remains of a chambered cairn, in one of the hollows in the dug out top are 2 large stones, not being an expert, I don’t know if they the remains of the chamber or not. The cairn was built over a standing stone, this stone is supposed to be visible, again is this something to do with the larege stones on the top?
Views over the fields to Win and Lose Hill.
08/02 SK244627(ish) Rectangular cairn 12x6m it covered 13 cremations. Easier to see when you’re there.
The moor is around 60 hectares and contains 70 or so cairns mainly from the early bronze age. The most notable are all visble from the paths on the moor.
The Heathcotes (father & son) excavated most of the cairns and circles on the moor. They also tidied (?) some of the ones they dug, not necessarily to their original form.
Around 400 or so yards to the NE, tall stone thought in the early 20Century to mark the star Capella( rising ) although the stone isn’t visible from the circle