Already got my next trip out planned, these places just keep popping up out of the wood work, literally, I think this one is in a forest, Coflein entices us with this.....
Thought to have been a round cairn, 20-25m in diameter, with a central megalithic chamber, the present form of the monument, a sub-rectangular drystone enclosure, c.10m square and 2.0m high, is thought to result from systematic treasure hunting/excavation.
The mound survives to 0.8m high and a possible capstone, 2.5m by 1.5m crowns the rubble fill of the enclosure.
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I'm sad and dissapointed to say I couldnt find this stone circle or the two ring cairns nearby, I was sad because I couldn't find them and dissapointed because it was my own fault.
I only half remembered there whereabouts, and did no checking up on it, poor performance being prevented by prior preparation.
If its any help the stones appear to be on the higher ground than where I was looking, not down on the flat ground just north of the farm Hafod-y-pant.
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It had been such a hard morning that by the time I'd climbed this hill checked out the stone, mound and cairn, I forgot about this cairn which coflein says little about........
A cairn, 8.0m in diameter and 0.5m high, having a well preserved central cist, without a capstone.
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But just enough to make me kick myself, I like a good cist, capstone or not.
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Three cairns are upon this summit 1.2 , 1.3 and 1.6 metres high, also in the locale are several low barrows and other small cairns.
I shall be visiting as soon as funds allow.
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As we didnt take a trip down to the barrow fieldnotes would be a bit of a fib, so a short misc note.
The barrow is at the bottom of a river valley (the Afon Aled) unlike the other barrows we'd seen this morning which were on hill tops and crests.
Coflein says that in 1892 human bones were found in a cist or chamber, maybe bronze artifacts too.
From the road I couldnt tell whether there was any stones protruding from the barrow which still looked about two metres tall and enclosed behind a wire fence, a closer look seems warrented.
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This sounds like an interesting place, I wonder why Greywether never made it here,
This cairn, situated on a low knoll on the hillside overlooking Loch Fyne and 800m ESE of Ardno, measures about 10m in diameter and 2m in height. A large central cist, aligned WNW and ESE, measures 2.05m by 1m and 0.9m in depth; it was constructed of six large upright slabs, five of which remain in position. The two NE side-slabs have slipped a little, but the two end-slabs and one of the SW side-slabs are still firmly set. The SE end-slab still stands to a height of 0.9m above the interior of the other slabs, it is possible that the capstone may have butted against it rather than overlain it.
Visited May 1986
From Canmore.
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I tried in vain to find this cairn and a nearby Roman hut circle, I think I went too far up the hill,
but I was rewarded with a brilliant view of llyn Cowlyd reservoir, and a strange looking rock formation called I think Maen Trichwmwd, I hope it translates as the hawk as that is what it most resembled to me.
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Another cairn/cist that lies in thrawl of mighty Tryfan, coflein says;
Burial cairn, probably Bronze Age, on the lower south-west facing slopes of Cwm Tal-y-braich. Stone built circular cairn, measuring c. 8m in diameter and up to 0.9m in height. The cairn has been disturbed in the past, with several rubble-filled hollows visible in the centre and a large exposed cist (with adjacent capstone) on the south-west side.
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Whilst trawling through coflein I came upon this
interesting sounding cairn, it's now on the list of places to go.
Cairn consisting of two very large slate slabs sitting on top of one another. The top stone is at least 1.8m long and 0.8m wide with possible polished stone axe grooves or incised rock art. The rock art consists of approx. 20 incised lines, 'v' shaped in profile and roughly 5-8mm deep and between 10cm-30cm long. 5 other quartz blocks are placed around the slab. Cairn is situated on a knoll with views to the sea and up the valley. Might be capstone of dolmen?
rock art ? dolmen ? I'm on my way. (almost)
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A day off work often sees me dissapearing into the Welsh wilderness, a bit of snow wasnt going to put me off so at about 10.30 am I turned off the snowcleared main road and made my way onto the horseshoe pass.
The radio mentioned closed roads in the Peak district but nothing close by, with much lip biting and wheel spinning I gave it a go. Just a hundred metres shy of the restaurant/shop/carpark I could go no more, maybe I couldve struggled on at half a mile an hour, i'll never know because infront of me reversing towards me came a big 4x4 with tow rope ready, after some general piss taking they towed me to the crest of the hill, and there the car was going to stay whilst I climbed the modest hill. So far not so good .
Equipped for any type of weather, I strode forward like someone who rarely fails, I would have made it too if it weren't for those pesky snow drifts, with every footfall my booted feet sank all the way to my knees, it was more tiring than any other kind of walking, my breathing got hard, my chest hurt, all I could do was try and make it to the big stone I could see further up the hill, only it wasn't a stone , and like the straw that broke the reindeers back it was actually an igloo, three of them, igloos ? in Llangolen ? I'm not going to make it this time, I took a few arctic photos and turned back, after not even getting a quarter of the way. It was easier getting back down than getting up. I'm off work next week maybe another attempt with slightly less snow will afford some success.
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A round cairn, 30m in diameter and 3.0m high, set on the Llandegla-Penycae boundary.
Coflein helps me out for yet another big bump survey. Coming soon
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A centrally depressed round cairn, 19m in diameter and 2.1m high, opened c.1890, producing black ash, small bones, a horse tooth and a flint arrowhead.
(source Os495card; SJ24NW15)
J.Wiles 15.11.02
OAN Site visit 2002/10/11/PJS. OAN field survey, located by GPS to an accuracy of +/- 1m. The site is located on the south west side of Offa's Dyke Footpath and the base of the north side of the cairn has been truncated by it and is actively being eroded.
Phwoar... flint arrowheads, and over two metres high, i'm on my way.
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A mutilated cairn, 21m in diameter and 2.2m high...
Is all that coflein says of it, to me anything over a metre high is worthy of a visit.
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Remains of a barrow, visible as a prominent earthen mound rising to a height of 3m above the surrounding ground. A hollow 1m deep at its centre suggests some past disturbance.
From Coflein
Three metres high ?
No chance !
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Just north of Llyn Cwm Ystradllwyn is a stone row and a quater of a kilometre east of it is a small standing stone, there are hut circles all over the place too, heres what Coflein says about them.
A row of five boulders aligned north-west to south-east and estimated at approx. 20m long including gaps. It is possible that there are two missing stones. and
A standing stone 0.5m high by 0.3m wide and 0.3m thick and triangular in plan. The stone is sited close to both a field boundary and a sheepfold and is in an upright position.
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Standing stone, probably dating to the Bronze Age, standing 1/7m in height and measuring 0.5m in thickness and 0.4m in width. It is a tall, thin stone tapering to a rounded point.
From Coflein
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After visiting literally thousands ancient places and driving between fifteen to twenty thousand miles every year I can only conclude that I'm obsessed with these places, and finding this website ten years ago only compounded that obsession, at least I'm not alone anymore.
My favourite places are:
Ring of Brodgar
Callanish
Balnauran of Clava
Torhouskie
Swinside
Nine stones close
Bryn Celli Ddu
The Druids circle (penmaenmawr)
HafodyGors Wen
Gwal y Filiast
Grey Wethers
Boscawen Un
La Roche au Fees
Drombeg
Uragh
Talati De Dalt
and these are only the ones that immediatly spring to mind, so many stones and not enough lifetimes.
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