
Golden cape found at Mold, north Wales. British museum
Golden cape found at Mold, north Wales. British museum
Axe heads in different size / degrees of polish British museum
‘Equivalents for the Megaliths’ (1935)
Paul Nash’s wonderful take on Avebury and Silbury (in exposed form to the right)
view from the river towards the shelf – the barrow is the bump at the left adjacent to the farmhouse
the stone stands overgrown in a hedge perpendicular to the road on te opposite side to the farm
This is the quartz boulder lying within the cairn – thought to have be a fallen menhir
this is the possible fallen row of three adjacent
this is another nearby stone within a field boundary
It’s almost impossible to photograph the circle – or the nearby ring cairn. In winter it will be easier but the stones are small and the late summer grass is long. That maybe why they have survived forgotten here for so long
the little jewel like quartz embedded stones have somehow survived three thousand years in this place
Cairn A
This remains generally intact and unexcavated apart from a channel brutally cut by the OS to provide a line of site from their nearby beacon
Cairn B
Superficially this appears the more intact but it has been hollowed out to provide a remarkably deep chamber now used as an occasional storm shelter
The barrows are deliberately placed on the ridge above a natural ampitheater providing what could have been a forum for associated activity
This view shows the barrows on the horizon to the left. The dot in the middle is the Maen Bach Standing stone and the mound on the far right is Maen Hir
here the crugiau merched barrows can be seen on the horizon in the behind the stone