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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Bridgend Recreation CentreCountry: Wales
NOTE: This site is 0.552 km away from the location you searched for.
County: West Glamorgan Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Nearest Town: Bridgend
Map Ref: SS90217951 Landranger Map Number: 170
Latitude: 51.503825N Longitude: 3.583221W
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 |
5 | Superb |
4 | Good |
3 | Ordinary |
2 | Not Good |
1 | Awful |
0 | No data. |
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 |
4 | co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map |
3 | co-ordinates scaled from a bad map |
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tribulation visited on 20th Jan 2019 - their rating: Cond: 3 Amb: 3 Access: 5 The stone is outside the entrance to the Bowls Club. It looks as if it was once deeply incised on back and front, stands about 150cm tall and has presence when you look at it, though I never noticed it before. Went into the Local History Library (quarter of a mile away in the Registry Office down Sunnyside) and read the excavation report, as promised on the plaque beside the stone, which has diagrams of the pit and describes a partial skeleton cremation burial which was underneath. The stone is made of Millstone grit and the grooves are written off as weathering because they don't appear below the exposed surface, though in my opinion, there is little reason to suppose it was not carved after erection.
sem have visited here
Unfortunately some recent damage has been done to it.
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