This is another image of the set nearby the stone row / alignment pair – with the fallen stone (supported on pallets) in the foreground
Image credit: nix stewart
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Another image of the set nearby the stone row / alignment pair
Image credit: nix stewart
This is an image of the set nearby the stone row / alignment pair (t though not aligned with them)
Image credit: Nix Stewart
As noted, by other this beautiful pair are surrounded by a lot of old junk.
BUT just nearby is another set not previously noted
I have posted these as a new site – they are not in alignment – but are so close that must be connected
So could be incorporated
Follow the directions for the Dunan Aula Cist and you will find this huge beauty standing in the corner of the field.
It is massive – about 8 foot and pointed – and in a gorgeous location
This is an easy and beautiful walk from the road.
The cist is in a gorgeous location on top of a natural mound.
Take a picnic
Follow the direction for the Barbreck stone row.
From the Barbreck stones (in the farmyard behind and slightly to the east of the grand house) take the track that runs east over a grass bridge.
Follow the track as it bends to the left and winds up the valley with the river to your left. After a mile the track turns sharp left and heads through a ruined farm’s yard.
Pass through a gate, turn right and follow the track with thrive to your left again until it crosses a stream. The cist / cairn is on top of the mound ahead of you.
You will be able to see the massive Sluggan standing stone from it too.
Wow. It is over 11 years since we last visited. But noticed there is much more information online about this complex since then
Dyfed / Cambria Archaeology carried out a survey in 2007 which says there was another stone row recorded in 1975 which is no linger visible. Lots of detailed info, references and drawings here:
dyfedarchaeology.org.uk/projects/cefngwenffrwd.htm
Some notes / images on the Stone Rows blog:
stonerows.wordpress.com/gazetteer/region/mid-wales/cefn-gwernffrwd-row-i/
They still haven’t linked it to this though
themodernantiquarian.com/site/8966/cefn_gwenffrwd.html
It is no longer possible to visit the circle via the A35 and over the little bridge which is gone.
The gate is sealed and a sign directs to access via the Little chef and path- a bit late if you didn’t know! But probably a good thing as it had to be one of them more dangerous routes to a circle.
Unknown circular formation in field adjacent to ridgeway north of byeway to Avebury.
Image credit: google
‘Heart of Neolithic Orkney’ 68p stamp 2005
Image credit: nix / post office
A cast of a flint hand axe found at the major beacon in the 1920s
Image credit: Nix
A cast of a flint hand axe found at the major beacon in the 1920s
Image credit: nix
The hand axe in the photos above is actually a cast taken from a mould originally made in the mid-seventies for Luton museum who hold (but don’t currently display) the actual axe.
It is a beautiful thing but most wonderful is the way it fits perfectly into your hand with places for each finger.
A truly aesthetic pleasure.
Alan Garner’s latest novel Boneland features this as an important location. Drawing on its probable provenance as the place that Gawain meets the Green Knight in Hugh Massey’s mediaeval poem, he has speculated that it will prove to be a major site of pre-historic rock art.
He discovered a 19th century document describing the descent of a miner into a crevice now hidden by earth movement. The miner reported seeing significant ‘druidical remains‘
Time Team reconstruction of the stones when standing from the Rediscovering Ancient Britain special:
channel4.com/programmes/time-team-specials/4od
Image credit: Channel 4
We stumbled over various large stones with possible cup marks in the meadow and found a couple of the same built into garden walls.
flickr.com/photos/66391623@N03/sets/72157627435147864/
See what you think
Never noticed before but the stone is aligned exactly east west.
This single stone is aligned exactly east – west.
Image credit: nix
The dig is here in their Bronze Age Compilation:
It could be humanity’s oldest story of doomed love. Archaeologists have unearthed two skeletons from the Neolithic period locked in an eternal embrace and buried outside Mantua, Italy, just 25 miles south of Verona, the city where Shakespeare set the star-crossed tale of Romeo and Juliet.
After being found at the site where a factory is planned, people worldwide have speculated on the circumstances surrounding the couple’s deaths. They are thought to have died young because they both had all their teeth intact. But beyond that, the skeletons are a mystery. Archaeologists announced Monday that they will move the entire block of earth the skeletons are resting in for further study and eventual display in a museum.
Read more: news.cnet.com/2300-11395_3-6158705.html?tag=mncol;1n#ixzz1E0j2dJfI
Sacred remains or study materials?
Severe restrictions on scientists’ freedom to study bones and skulls from ancient graves are putting archaeological research in Britain at risk, according to experts.
guardian.co.uk/science/2010/oct/10/burial-grave-mike-pitts-stonehenge
Poppy picked this up by Adam. Realised in London it might be an axe / spear head?
Image credit: Nix
The Alderley Edge Landscape Project has:
“tentatively confirmed the place of Alderley Edge at the dawn of metal working. The members of the project team believe that metal prospectors came to Alderley Edge at the beginning of the Bronze Age.”
See:
alderleyedge.com/images/current-archaeology.pdf
There are some very interesting connectione being made between this and the legend of the sleeping armoured knights and their treasure
If you wish to inspect the well at close quarter. Contact the local historian at Finsbury Library. They have a key and will open the space by arrangement.
There is little about any pre-historic provenance but the little exhibition next to the well is interesting.
The room housing the well is suffering from subsidence and will undergo restoration and be closed for a period soon.
The new galleries are open.
The London before London display is great.
New online fabulous collection of images of the masses of prehistoric artefacts found in the area:
museumoflondon.org.uk/English/Collections/Prehistoric1700/Prehistoric.htm
The American property developer Gerald Hines is trying to persuade the City of London authority to let him re-house the stone in the foyer of the redeveloped Cannon Street station.
It’s true that this is nearer to it’s original horizontal position – albeit several meters up in the air from the original ground height where it stood.
There hasn’t been any movement on the proposed relocation of the stone to the Museum of London and almost anything would be preferable to the way it is currently housed.
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