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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Pen Garneddwen CairnCountry: Wales
NOTE: This site is 3.412 km away from the location you searched for.
County: Gwynedd Type: Cairn
Nearest Town: Bala Nearest Village: Frongoch
Map Ref: SH868414
Latitude: 52.957987N Longitude: 3.686602W
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 |
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4 | Good |
3 | Ordinary |
2 | Not Good |
1 | Awful |
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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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The cairn is situated on the summit of Pen Garneddwen (top of the white cairn). The walk to it is difficult. The cairn is not visible until you reach the ridge that leads to it. Then there's a battle to negotiate your way through thigh high heather. All forgotten when you reach the site.
This is a large cairn that sits proudly on the summit. It is 18m in diameter and 3.5m in height. The interior was excavated in 1860 and a cist and human ash removed. The site overlooks Llyn Celyn reservoir the site of the controversial drowning of the village of Capel Celyn in 1965 by damming the river Tryweryn.
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