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<< Other Photo Pages >> Maen Cattwg - Rock Art in Wales in Mid Glamorgan

Submitted by coldrum on Friday, 13 July 2007  Page Views: 9931

Rock ArtSite Name: Maen Cattwg Alternative Name: Maen Catwg; Gelli-Gaer Carving
Country: Wales
NOTE: This site is 2.963 km away from the location you searched for.

County: Mid Glamorgan Type: Rock Art
Nearest Town: Gelligaer
Map Ref: ST12709742
Latitude: 51.668747N  Longitude: 3.263746W
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
3 Ambience:
5Superb
4Good
3Ordinary
2Not Good
1Awful
0No data.
3 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.
3 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
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Average ratings for this site from all visit loggers: Condition: 3 Ambience: 2.33 Access: 3

Cup and Ring marked stone in Mid Glamorgan

Directions: Park at the Cross Inn, Heol Adam, Hengoed, Gelligaer, Glamorgan. Walk about a hundred yards up Heol Adam until you pass a squat red building on your right. The stile is on your left. Cross the field to the gate into the second field. Visible on your right is the stone, in the middle of that field.

You'll notice that there are stones underneath the main stone. Perhaps one day there'll be an excavation there, to see if it really is the capstone of a cromlech. In the meantime, mind the horses ( see video ).
Text by Laurence Peddle (Laurencewithau)

For more information see Coflein site no. 93097, an extract of which reads: "A roughly rectangular prostrate stone, 2.6m by 1.7m and 0.6m thick. There are 33-50 cup-marks on the upper surface of the stone, which has been suggested to have been the capstone of a collapsed megalithic chamber ... Details of a second carved stone bearing peck-marked decoration, located close to Maen Catwg in 1990 ... The rectangular stone bore an arc of 6 small peck marks towards one pointed corner of its upper surface, associated with a line of 3 peck marks extending from the arc."

The Northern Antiquarian (TNA) also features a page for this site - see their entry for Maen Cattwg, Gelligaer, Glamorganshire, which also gives directions for finding the site from Galligaer, together with a brief archaeology & history.

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ST1297 : Maen Catwg by Alan Richards
by Alan Richards
©2010(licence)
ST1297 : A colourful house, Gelligaer by Robin Drayton
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ST1397 : The Cross Inn, Gelligaer by Graham Horn
by Graham Horn
©2008(licence)
ST1297 : Roman Ridge, Gelligaer by Alan Hughes
by Alan Hughes
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ST1397 : B4254 Church Road by Colin Pyle
by Colin Pyle
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Video of Maen Cattwg cupmarked stone by Andy B on Wednesday, 23 March 2016
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Laurencewithau writes: Cupmarks: not stone circles but circles in stone. Maen Cattwg cupmarked stone.



https://youtu.be/Wc_HFc-R9s8

The video is of my visit to Maen Cattwg on 5th March 2016.

Directions: Park at the Cross Inn, Heol Adam, Hengoed, Gelligaer, Glamorgan. Walk about a hundred yards up Heol Adam until you pass a squat red building on your right. The stile is on your left. Cross the field to the gate into the second field. Visible on your right is the stone, in the middle of that field.

You'll notice that there are stones underneath the main stone.
Perhaps one day there'll be an excavation there, to see if it really is the capstone of a cromlech.
In the meantime, mind the horses ( see video ).
Laurence Peddle

I could not get the iframe embed to work, but the link should be OK.

[Iframe embed works on page comments (here) and in the forum - feel free to add any other videos you have made - find our page for the site first, then add a comment as here - thanks! MegP Ed]
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Re: Maen Catwg by coldrum on Monday, 11 January 2010
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Coflein entry.

http://www.coflein.gov.uk/en/site/93097/details/MAEN+CATTWG+%28CUP-MARKED+STONE%29%3BMAEN+CATWG/
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