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<< Text Pages >> Careg Croes-Ifor - Round Cairn in Wales in Monmouthshire

Submitted by vicky on Sunday, 21 July 2002  Page Views: 5480

Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Careg Croes-Ifor
Country: Wales
NOTE: This site is 1.462 km away from the location you searched for.

County: Monmouthshire Type: Round Cairn
Nearest Town: Abergavenny  Nearest Village: Blaenavon
Map Ref: SO248106  Landranger Map Number: 161
Latitude: 51.788981N  Longitude: 3.09167W
Condition:
5Perfect
4Almost Perfect
3Reasonable but with some damage
2Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
0No data.
-1Completely destroyed
no data Ambience:
5Superb
4Good
3Ordinary
2Not Good
1Awful
0No data.
no data Access:
5Can be driven to, probably with disabled access
4Short walk on a footpath
3Requiring a bit more of a walk
2A long walk
1In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find
0No data.
no data Accuracy:
5co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates
4co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map
3co-ordinates scaled from a bad map
2co-ordinates of the nearest village
1co-ordinates of the nearest town
0no data
3
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Careg Croes-Ifor
Careg Croes-Ifor submitted by Annwfn_deCym23 : The open-cast mining known as the 'Canada Tips'. The site of Careg Croes-Ifor was once located here. (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Re: Careg Croes-Ifor by coldrum on Sunday, 27 December 2020
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Coflein site entry:
"At Careg-Croes-Ifor (The stone of Ivor's Cross) are two cairns or heaps of stones whose origins are lost in antiquity.
(Source: J.A.Bradney, History of Monmouthshire, 1904, pt.1, pp.352, 399.)
All that remains of the two cairns at Pwll-du is a scatter of stones. The cairns seem to have been of simple construction and upon examination no trace was found of either burials or the structures that might have contained them.
(Source: W.F.Grimes, Excavations on Defence Sites 1939-45, 1960, p.248)
There are no visible remains of the cairns. They have been destroyed by open-cast coal mining.
(Source: OS 495 card: SO21SW10)
Carreg Maen Taro (nprn 260725), a marker stone about 1km away to the north west, was traditionally said to have been erected to commemorate a battle between two early British kings or chiefs, one of whom was called Ifor, and Pen-ffordd-goch (the head of the red road) (nprn 404999), some 600m to the east, is said to take its name from a battle waged there; there thus seems to be a vague tradition of a battle fought somewhere in the area.
B.A.Malaws, RCAHMW, 13 October 2006."
https://coflein.gov.uk/en/site/405021/details/two-cairns-careg-croes-ifor-pwll-du-blaenavon
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