Kammer

Visited 11th May 2003: Looking south west, vaguely in the direction of the Four Stones.

Visited 11th May 2003: Viewed from the north, looking towards the road (and the car). Old Radnor is visible in the distance to the right of the shot.

Visited 11th May 2003: The Hindwell Stone from the south, sitting in a small unploughed island.

Taken 11th May 2003: Randomly discarded farm machinery and the stones (to the right). Viewed from the north (and ever so slightly to the west).

[This plogh thingy is obviously a semi-permenant feature. When I visited on 21st June the field had just be cut, and the farmer had left his lunch-box resting on it by accident.]

Taken 11th May 2003: The top of the most southerly stone (i.e. the one nearest to Old Radnor) with some brooding sky in the background.

Taken 11th May 2003: Looking north towards Radnor Forest (and the car).

Taken 20th April 2003: I know what you’re thinking! This looks like an empty field. Well, you’re right, it is.

Taken 28th April 2003: The supporting pillar, constructed of brick after the excavations on 1914.

Taken 28th April 2003: From the south, giving a good indication of how the electricity pylon encroaches on the site (sorry, this is very similar to Jane’s photo).

Taken 28th April 2003: Stone cists in the mound to the west of the main chamber. I believe that one has been excavated, and one hasn’t (but don’t quote me on that!).

Taken 28th April 2003: The chamber from the south, with Lou and Alfie for scale.

Taken 10th December 2002: Looking north towards Y Garnedd.

Taken 10th December 2002: Looking north west, with the eastern side of the circle in the foreground.

Taken 28th April 2003: From the north west, with Louise and Alfie pondering.

Taken 28th April 2003: From the north east.

Taken 28th April 2003: Viewed from the south east, with Louise and Alfie for scale.

Taken 28th April 2003: The hole in the smallest of the three stones that supports the capstone, taken from inside the chamber.

Taken 16th March 2003: Looking north west, with Nant-y-Moch Reservoir and Drosgol in the background.

Taken 16th March 2003: The cairn viewed from the direction of the road that runs to the east.

Taken 16th March 2003: The cairn (or something that I took to be the cairn) looking approximately west.

Taken 16th March 2003: Not much to write home about. Looking vaguely north towards the Nant-y-Moch Dam and Reservoir.

Taken 6th April 2003: The smaller of the two cairnes, standing just to the south of its neighbour. This shot is taken from the west (approximately) with my Landranger map for scale.

Taken 6th April 2003: The largest of the visible kerb stones (on the large cairn). All the visible stones are on the western side of the cairn.

Taken 6th April 2003: The big cairn from the north east, with kerb stones visible, and my Landranger map for scale. Beyond the cairn is the hill that Maen Serth stands on.

Taken 6th April 2003: This is the largest of the two cairnes that I found, viewed from the north east.

Taken 6th April 2003: Looking against the grain. You can see the concrete pad on the east side of the stone, holding it up.

Taken 6th April 2003: The tip of the stone, taken from the north west.

Taken 6th April 2003: From the west, you can see tracks from the off-road running bikers on either side of the stone.

Taken 6th April 2003: Le picnic! William tries to get at the straw from his apple juice carton.

Taken 6th April 2003: The stone on the horizon, as seen approaching from the west.

Taken 6th April 2003: A close-up from the west. You can see the bricks around the base of the stone.

Taken 6th April 2003: The stone viewed from the north west with William (3 and a half years old) for scale, and Craig Ddu in the distance.

Taken 6th April 2003: Almost as soon as we arrived at the stone these of-roaders appeared on the horizon. They were very friendly, waving to us as they went past on the deeply rutted track. I just wish they’d do something a bit less destructive with their spare time.

Taken 10th May 2003: The Barber Stone, viewed from the north east, where the body of a man was found dating back to the fourteen century CE. As I understand it, the predominant theory is that his death was caused by the weight of the stone itself falling on him during it’s felling. In case you’re trying to locate this stone, it’s in the south west quarter of the henge.

Flotsky asked me to take this shot because he liked the stone, so I dutifully did. I don’t think either of us realised at the time that it had an extra significance. I only identified it by chance, some time later.

Taken 6th April 2003: The fallen stone from the west (this time the packing stones are obscured by the reeds).

Taken 6th April 2003: The view west from just behind the fallen stone (partially obscured behind the reeds in the foreground).

Taken 11th May 2003: From the north west. The verge was covered in buttercups, daiseys and small blue flowers that I couldn’t identify (I’m no expert on these things).

Taken 11th May 2003: The stone from the south, showing it’s position alongside the road.

Taken 24th May 2003: As well as being Jane’s first visit to Pentre Ifan, this was also Alfie’s first visit. He loved exploring using his recently discovered skill of crawling. It’s a far cry from this...

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Shouldn’t neglect to mention Louise on her stone.

Taken 24th May 2003: I know what you’re think...this is almost identical to loads of other photos posted up here. Well you’re wrong! This snap (taken from the west) has the following special ingredients, never previously combined at Pentre Ifan:

a) Jane sketching on the other side of the dolmen (yes FourWinds, it’s a dolmen!).
b) Sunshine, and lots of it.

Taken 11th May 2003: The chamber viewed from the north. In the bottom left hand corner of this shot you can see a bit of the recumbent stone.

Taken 11th May 2003: The recumbent stone that lies, partially buried just to the north of the main chamber (not exactly yards away broen).

Taken 11th May 2003: The chamber viewed from the north east (on the other side of the lane).

Taken 24th May 2003: The fallen stone at the western end of the row, sitting a short distance away from the other two.

The stone that remains standing can be seen just below the two sunlit mountains in the distance (at a guess these two peaks are Frenni Fawr and Moel Drygarn).

Taken 24th May 2003: At the eastern end of the row, this stone is definately an ex-standing stone. You can see the remains of hole where it once stood.

Taken 24th May 2003: The middle stone, viewed from the south.

Taken 24th May 2003: Of the three stones, the middle stone is the only one that remains standing. Here it is viewed from the east (approximately speaking).

Taken 24th May 2003: This is a pretty poor photo, but it’s the only one I have showing the way that the stones are spaced out. It’s taken from the north west (the stones are indicated by the red arrows).

Taken 24th May 2003: From the east. We had real trouble stopping William from getting into the puddle!