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<< Our Photo Pages >> Llwyn-Y-Fedwen - Standing Stone (Menhir) in Wales in Powys

Submitted by Johnny on Monday, 23 September 2002  Page Views: 10389

Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Llwyn-Y-Fedwen Alternative Name: Gliffaes Stone; Llangynidr Bridge
Country: Wales
NOTE: This site is 0.413 km away from the location you searched for.
County: Powys Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Nearest Town: Brecon  Nearest Village: Llangynidr
Map Ref: SO15622039  Landranger Map Number: 161
Latitude: 51.875671N  Longitude: 3.227123W
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
 4 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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michmax visited on 21st Jul 2016 - their rating: Cond: 5 Amb: 5 Access: 4 The standing stone is extremely impressive. It is enormous and stands majestically in a field close to the river. The farmer was very happy to let me onto his land to view the stone.

NickyD visited on 1st Jun 2014 - their rating: Amb: 4 Access: 3



Average ratings for this site from all visit loggers: Ambience: 4.5 Access: 3.5

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Llwyn-Y-Fedwen submitted by Energyman : An aerial view of the shadow just after daybreak. Rain on the lens, but the rainbow was an extra bonus! (Vote or comment on this photo)
Also known as the Gliffaes stone, at 4.27m this is one of the tallest bronze age standing stones in Wales. It is marked on maps as standing stone but situated in private farmland.

This stone is recorded as Coflein NPRN 305996 which says: "The standing stone at Llwyn-y-Fedwen measures 4.0m high by 1.4m square, and is set upon a knoll measuring c.60m long and 4.0m high."

The Northern Antiquarian (TNA) also features a page for this standing stone - see their entry for Llangynidr Bridge, Llangynidr, Breconshire, which gives directions for finding this menhirs, together with a brief archaeology & history. TNA adds: "A 14 foot tall standing stone with a most peculiar ‘modern’ history to it.  Some of you will like this, others may have palpitations – but… In recent times, since the notion of “energy at megaliths” have been in vogue, this was one of the first monoliths found to possess magnetic anomalies."

Note: This stone is located on private land - permission should be sought from the farm nearby.
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Llwyn-Y-Fedwen submitted by Energyman : A cloudy dawn, looking from the west (1 comment - Vote or comment on this photo)

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Llwyn-Y-Fedwen submitted by Energyman : The full moon only showed its face through the clouds briefly. (3 comments - Vote or comment on this photo)

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Llwyn-Y-Fedwen submitted by LAS : The solid, 15 ft. Llwn-y-Fedwen stands on the north side of the river Usk. With deep horizontal grooves int its side it is a powerful sight. (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Llwyn-Y-Fedwen submitted by Energyman : Another (almost) moon shot with better exposure, perhaps (Vote or comment on this photo)

Llwyn-y-Fedwen Standing Stone
Llwyn-y-Fedwen Standing Stone submitted by Johnny : Llwyn-y-Fedwen Standing Stone, Powys (SO 157 204): Marked on maps as standing stone but situated in private farmland. Also known as the Gliffaes stone, at 4.27m this is one of the tallest bronze age standing stones in Wales.

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Llwyn-Y-Fedwen submitted by Energyman : The south face

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Llwyn-Y-Fedwen submitted by Energyman : A series of close ups of the East face stitched together for greater detail. Unfortunately you lose the background

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Llwyn-Y-Fedwen submitted by Energyman : 5 close ups stitched together of the N face

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Llwyn-Y-Fedwen submitted by michmax : It isn't possible to see the real scale of the standing stone from this picture but the markings give the impression of a face from this angle

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Llwyn-Y-Fedwen submitted by michmax : Close up of the verticle cuts on the Llwyn y Fedwen standing stone.

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Llwyn-Y-Fedwen submitted by NickyD : image Llwyn-Y-Fedwen Image copyright: stonesearcher, hosted on Flickr and displayed under the terms of their API.

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Llwyn-Y-Fedwen submitted by NickyD : Not the best shot but proof that I've been!! Image copyright: stonesearcher, hosted on Flickr and displayed under the terms of their API.

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Llwyn-Y-Fedwen submitted by Bladup : Llwyn-Y-Fedwen.

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Llwyn-Y-Fedwen submitted by Bladup (1 comment)

Llwyn-y-Fedwen Standing Stone
Llwyn-y-Fedwen Standing Stone submitted by Johnny : Llwyn-y-Fedwen Standing Stone, Powys (SO 157 204): Not the best scanned photo ever but it serves to demonstrate the immensity of this impressive standing stone!

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Re: Llwyn-Y-Fedwen by PhilipBurton on Wednesday, 02 September 2015
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I visited this stone in October 1995 as part of my search for magnetic stones. In spite of what went on before then, so well described above, I could not find any trace of magnetism with a hand held compass. This was not an easy job because of the height of the stone, the undergrowth around it and possible interference from the fencing around. I may have missed something but I don’t think so. To do the job properly a conversation with the farmer, a prior recce and a stepladder are required. Don’t know what Balanovsky and Taylor were finding but evidently it was not the permanent ferromagnetism that I was looking for.

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Re: Llwyn-Y-Fedwen by coldrum on Monday, 11 January 2010
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Coflein entry.

http://www.coflein.gov.uk/en/site/305996/details/LLWYN-Y-FEDWEN%2C+STANDING+STONE/
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Re: Llwyn-Y-Fedwen by AngieLake on Thursday, 31 July 2008
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In 'Places of Power' by Paul Devereux, this stone was the subject of investigation for 'megalithic magnetic anomolies', and is No.15 of 31 sites listed in detail in Chapter 5: 'British Sites North to South - An Energy Guide'. It is given the title 'The Llangynidr Stone, Powys'.

It came to notice in the mid-1970s when the author Francis Hitching was writing a book and making a TV documentary (both with the title 'Earth Magic'). He had the master-dowser Bill Lewis, who lives at Abergavenny, to dowse a stone for him and this one was chosen as it was reasonably close by.
Lewis dowsed the spiral of energy as he often does on standing stones and urged Hitching to see if he could get a scientist to take measurements.
Prof. John Taylor of King's College, London, supplied a gaussmeter for reading magnetic field strength, and a young Argentinian physicist called Eduardo Balanovski, then at Imperial College in London. Hitching commented in 1976:

"What Balanovski found surprised him very much.
After checking the background levels and setting the meter at zero, he pointed the measuring probe at the stone. The needle on the dial shot up, showing an anomaly far greater than the few thousandths or hundredths of a gauss that would have been normal.......
Balanovski has no doubt that the basic anomaly... is significant:
'The point is that a water-diviner told us about it, and we went there and found something measurable. It may be the stone contains, geologically, the reason for the anomaly. Or it may be caused by something we don't yet understand. But I do not personally believe that the stone was accidentally chosen or accidentally placed. The people who put it there knew about its power, even if they didn't know about electro-magentism.'

Later investigations by Prof. Taylor and Balanovski, working with the dowser, proved the existence of bands of increased magnetism down the stone at points dowsed and marked in chalk by Bill Lewis.
Devereux checked with Prof. Taylor some time after Hitching's book came out to see if any more work had been done, and the prof said that results had 'proved a little contradictory'. (The Ley Hunter, 1977).
The findings had put magnetic monitoring on the Dragon Project's agenda.
Because of the late appearance of magnetometers on the Dragon Project and the fact that the stone is on private land, there has only been one brief, preliminary Dragon Project visit to the Llangynidr stone.
No radiation anomalies were noted, and a period of magnetometer monitoring did not show up any immediately anomalous results. But this work WAS perfunctory, and serious further work is still required at this site.

[Some - not all - lines quoted in full here from Places of Power, paperback, edition 1990.]
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