Miscellaneous Posts by Kammer

Summit cairn, 12m in diameter, rather amorphous, having shelters constructed in centre and over SW perimeter; small satelite cairns have been noted to the NE.

Cairn upon the summit of Disgwylfa Fawr, c.20m in diameter & 3.0m high: trenching, in 1937, reported a ring of slab-stones within the body of the mound, within which were found two dugout tree-trunks of oak, 2.4-2.7m & 1.08m long, these subsequently yielded radio-carbon datescentring on 1910BC & 1350BC respectively; within the smaller dugout were cremated human bones, a flint blade & a ceramic vessel, covered by an animal skin.

Circle of 54 stones, 38 of which were visible in 1980, the remainder being confirmed by probing, one stand over 0.4m high.

c.22m in diameter, with opposing NW and SE entrances, variously described as enclosing unspecified lesser enclosures c.1.8-3.0m in diameter, or 'two small hut platforms'.

A degraded possible stone circle, 13m in diameter, represented by four stones, one of them erect. the eponymous stone, named for a local giant (but see Nprn305882) lies within the circle.

A much ploughed-down barrow, 23m in diameter and 1.0m high, from which 'a few small pieces of bone' were removed 'at some time before 1870'.

A standing stone 2.28m high by 1.06m by 0.61m, said to be the sole survivor of four stones, 'two large and two mall stones arranged quadrangularly'.

A standing stone, 1.8m high by 2.15m by 0.42m, set on level ground in a valley bottom. A second stone (Cpat Prn4453), 2.23m by 0.93m by 0.15m, lies prostrate at the foot of the monolith, together these stones may have formed a stone pair. There is a hollow way (Cpat Prn4447) running E-W to the N of the stones.

An unbroken bank, 2.0-4.0m wide and 0.6-0.9m high, encloses an area 10m in diameter, and has an Os triangulation pillar upon its SW.

A cairn, 19m in diameter and 2.0m high, largely denuded by the construction of a rectangular shelter upon it. A skull and other human bones are said to have been found here and subsequently reinterred.

The monument includes a long barrow situated on a south east facing slope below the crest of a wide spur. The long barrow is orientated east-west but has been rounded by cultivation. The mound is 48m long and has a maximum width, at the centre, of 28m. It reaches a maximum height of 0.8m in the part that is no longer under cultivation but elsewhere survives as a slight rise approximately 0.3m high. Set into the east end of the mound is a large, lozenge shaped stone, known locally as the Hoar Stone. To the south of the centre of the mound is a large, kite shaped, capstone which covers a chamber. This was excavated in 1806 by Anthony Preston and is reported to have been divided into two segments and to have contained the remains of eight or nine skeletons. Although no longer visible on the surface, quarry ditches will flank either side of the mound and will survive as buried features 3m wide.

A cairn circle 13m in diameter. Of an original ring of stones protruding from the upper edge of the bank, nine remain.

There is another group on the north side of Glandy Cross, running uphill behind the pub. One of these seems to have been of exceptional importance; the platform is kerbed with unusually heavy stones, so that it has sometimes been mistaken for a stone circle. A hedge has cut off some of it, and brambles have swallowed the interior.

A rectangular cave, 3.0m wide by 3.5m high and 5.0m deep, set near the top of coastal cliffs facing E across a level platform. Finds from excavation (1911-1977), range from the Mesolithic to medieval.

THIS WALL FOR THE PROTECTION OF
THE GIANT'S RING
WAS ERECTED A.D. MDCCCXLI BY
ARTHUR VISCOUNT DUNGANNON
[On whose] estate this singular relique of
is situated and who earnestly
recommends it to the care of his successors.