<< Our Photo Pages >> Garnteg Menhir - Standing Stone (Menhir) in Wales in Monmouthshire
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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Garnteg MenhirCountry: Wales
NOTE: This site is 1.382 km away from the location you searched for.
County: Monmouthshire Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Nearest Town: Pontypool Nearest Village: Garndiffaith
Map Ref: SO268047
Latitude: 51.736209N Longitude: 3.061434W
Condition:
5 | Perfect |
4 | Almost Perfect |
3 | Reasonable but with some damage |
2 | Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site |
1 | Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks |
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-1 | Completely destroyed |
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4 | Good |
3 | Ordinary |
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1 | Awful |
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5 | Can be driven to, probably with disabled access |
4 | Short walk on a footpath |
3 | Requiring a bit more of a walk |
2 | A long walk |
1 | In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find |
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5 | co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates |
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3 | co-ordinates scaled from a bad map |
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You can park near the Six Bells bridge on Harpers Road, walk onto the old train line and walk north. After a couple of hundred meters you will come to a clearing on your right. The standing stone is about 4ft tall and is about 40 meters into the field to the left of the clearing, and is situated in front of a mature tree. The stone is on private land so you will need permission to get any closer.
Directly behind the stone and tree there is a stone wall is a poor state of repair. This did give me pause and wonder if the Menhir is actually an old gate post, but in my opinion the the stone it to big to have been sunk as a gate post, and it's more likely that the wall was built up against it. The tree is very mature and has obviously grown up behind the Menhir, through the wall and knocked it down. So the wall itself must be many hundreds of years old.
In the same field (to your right and a little closer) there is a nice Barrow cemetery. It's on the same private land, but is clearly visible in a stand of trees. There's about 4 barrows in total, the 2 closest look in good condition.
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