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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Pump Maen (Five Stones) Alternative Name: Careg Lwyd 1Country: Wales
NOTE: This site is 2.044 km away from the location you searched for.
County: Powys Type: Stone Row / Alignment
Nearest Town: Ystradgynlais Nearest Village: Penwyllt
Map Ref: SN86361400
Latitude: 51.813043N Longitude: 3.64989W
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 |
| 0 | No data. |
| -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 |
| 0 | No data. |
| 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 |
| 2 | co-ordinates of the nearest village |
| 1 | co-ordinates of the nearest town |
| 0 | no data |
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SandyG visited on 19th Mar 2016 - their rating: Cond: 2 Amb: 4 Access: 3 Car parking is available at SN 85567 15530. From here walk north east along the waymarked path to SN 86267 15799. Head south east up the hill for about 400m.
It is always difficult to establish whether a line of boulders were deliberately placed or are instead the result of glacial or periglacial activity. Generally there must be a presumption in favour of natural origin, but occasionally some detail may hint at the possibility of human intervention. At Careg Lwyd a number of details support the possibility that this line of stones was created by people. The first is the three stone arrangement at the southern end and the second is the fact that the northern stone is prominent on the skyline when viewed from the southern end. Finally, and most convincingly is the evidence that at least one of the stones has been propped into position with trig stones. Together these details strongly suggest that this site was deliberately fashioned, but whether this happened in prehistoric times is less certain. On balance there is a sound possibility of this feature being a form of prehistoric stone row.
sem have visited here
They say they are interested in it and will visit again. The row seems to point to a stone on the horizon which marks a way down a cliff/scree slope.
Update October 2019: This stone row is featured on the Stone Rows of Great Britain website - see their entry for Careg Lwyd 1, which includes a description, photographs of the alignment and the individual stones, a plan showing both rows at this location from a recent survey in March 2016, access information and a list of online resources for more information.
The SRoGB also includes sections for Landscape Reveals and Sea Views - exploring and illustrating different landscape features and views that come into (and out of) view as you progress along the row.
The row is also recorded as Coflein NPRN 410236 (Careg Lwyd, Boulder Alignment). Also see The Secret Stones of Wales (Pump Maen).
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