Kammer

Taken 18th April 2003: From the south east (I think). This stone has a definate zig-zag quality to it.

Taken 18th April 2003: A load of bullocks!

Taken 18th April 2003: From the direction of Longhouse Farm.

Taken 18th April 2003: From the south east, amazingly this shot only has people in it and no cows! Lou, Alfie and William pose obligingly for scale (this is one of those sites that really needs it).

Taken 17th April 2003: The chamber from the east, with the setting sun behind it (again).

Taken 17th April 2003: The chamber from the east, with the setting sun behind it.

Taken 17th April 2003: The stone as seen from the road between Sampson and Bosherton.

Taken 17th April 2003: Looking west towards the setting sun.

Taken 17th April 2003: Viewed from the south, this shot totally fails to give any impression of scale. This is a large stone.

Taken 17th April 2003: The stone from the west.

Visited 17th April 2003: The staircase leading down to the Wogan from the castle.

Visited 17th April 2003: The Wogan is enormous, so not all that easy to photograph with a conventional flash. Here’s a corner of it, with William sat in shot.

Taken 17th April 2003: These are the unusual ripple like shapes in the cliff, attributed to St. Govans’ ribs.

Taken 17th April 2003: Looking east up the coast, with the well in the foreground.

Taken 17th April 2003: The holy well close-up. I’ve no idea how old the buiding over the well is. It’s probably modern rubbish (i.e. no more than a few hundred years old).

Taken 17th April 2003: The view from the window of St. Govan’s Chapel, looking down towards the well (in the foreground). This view is extremely variable, depending on the weather and the height of the tide.

Taken 17th April 2003: Viewed from this angle you can see how thin the stone is, and how much material has come away from it relatively recently.

Taken 17th April 2003: From the north west. This shot shows the fragments of the stone scattered next to it (partly in the shadow of the stone).

Taken 17th April 2003: The stone, viewed from the south east (more like east south east really). The oil refinery makes a delightful backdrop.

Taken 17th April 2003: The Longstone, looking north west(ish) with the oil refinery in the distance.

Taken 17th April 2003: A close-up of the obvious stone. If there is another one (and that seems to be the implication) it may be on the other side of the bank in the garden of the white house.

Taken 17th April 2003: This stone is right next to the road as you enter Broad Haven. There aren’t many angles you can photograph it from, and as luck would have it the sun was in the wrong place.

Taken 17th April 2003: The top of the stone, looking south west, with Stack Rocks visible in the distance.

Taken 17th April 2003: The people who own the cottage were very kind and welcoming. They left us to look at the stone on our own, but before they did they pointed out the fluting at the base of the stone. Apparently these are thought to be artificial grooves, made to ease the erection of the stone. One of the packing stones is also visible.

Taken 17th April 2003: Looking approximately north east. You can see just how close the stone is to the bungalow.

Taken 17th April 2003: The stone on it’s own. Taken from the east, with St. Bride’s Bay in the background.

Taken 17th April 2003: Louise posing next to the Harold Stone. The shot is taken looking north west(ish).

Taken 15th April 2003: This striking stone is at the end of the southern side of the elipse/rectangle. If you see the site as a rectangle it’s on the south western corner.

Taken 15th April 2003: From inside the elipse/rectangle, looking down the northern side. The lean on the stones is probably an original feature rather than the result of subsidence.

Sorry, this photo looks darned similar to RiotGibbon’s.

Taken 15th April 2003: From just below Carn Bica, looking down at Bedd Arthur. Lou is sat on one of the stones feeding Alfie.

Taken 15th April 2003: Loooking north east down the elipse/rectangle, as Lou and Will trudge up the hill. The distinctive hill in the middle distance is Moel Drygarn.

This picture is ‘borrowed’ from the faded and slightly mouldy notice board at Meini Gwyr. The illustration isn’t clearly labelled so I inferred from the text that it was drawn in the 17th Century by Edward Lhudy. It turns out it’s actually by William Stukeley.

The text in the circle reads,“Meineir Gwyr, Carmardynshire”, and the text at the bottom of the picture reads, “Two more stones standing 100 paces distant this way” (presumably a reference to Yr Allor).

Taken 26th April 2003: This is the end of the pond that runs on to the south of the Slad. In my opinion this is what remains of the defensive ditch as it runs around to the south, eventually to join up with western defences (aka Devil’s Dyke).

Taken 26th April 2003: Looking south along the path on the eastern side of the defence. Bluebells galore!

Taken 26th April 2003: Looking down into the defensive ditch from the eastern side.

Taken 26th April 2003: The barrows from the south west, with Dad and Will standing on one of the three prominent ones.

Taken 26th April 2003: The barrow cluster from the south east.

Taken 26th April 2003: A telephoto shot looking east across the golf course towards the barrow, with Royston in the distance.

Taken 26th April 2003: Looking north east towards the round barrow, with Dad and William on top of it and Royston in the background.

Taken 26th April 2003: From just west of the north barrow, looking back towards the long barrow (indicated with an arrow).

Taken 26th April 2003: Viewed from the south, Dad and William descend the barrow.

Taken 26th April 2003: This really tickled me. The long barrow is right in the middle of the golf course, and this bloke was taking a shot from on top of it. I don’t think he understood whe we were looking at the big bump he was standing on.

Taken 15th April 2003: This is the ‘circle’ viewed from somewhere towards the south west (approximate even by my standards). The stone in the foreground isn’t explained on the information board, or anything else that I’ve read about the site.

Taken 15th April 2003: This is Meini Gwyr from the direction it would have been approached through the original entrance. It’s not a very good shot because what little remains of the earthworks is barely visible.

Visited 15th April 2003: This shot is taken from Bedd Arthur looking towards Carn Meini and Carn Menyn Chambered Cairn (marked with a red arrow).

You can also see the River of Stones winding it’s way down the hillside from the cairn. The black marks, mainly below the Stone River, are recently burnt scrub.

Visited 15th April 2003: From the south west, with a natural rock outcrop (that I have yet to identify) in the ditance.

Visited 15th April 2003: From the west, looking inside the burial chamber.

Taken 15th April 2003: From the north again, but this time a close-up of the capstone.

Visited 15th April 2003: Carn Menyn Chambered Cairn from the north(ish), with the Stone River tailing off to the right of the shot.

Taken 15th April 2003: Sunrise over Caerfai Bay, looking across at Caerfai Camp and the tiny island of Penpleidiau.