<< Our Photo Pages >> Cribarth Cairns - Cairn in Wales in Powys
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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Cribarth CairnsCountry: Wales County: Powys Type: Cairn
Nearest Town: Ystradgynlais Nearest Village: Dan yr Ogof
Map Ref: SN8283514203
Latitude: 51.814139N Longitude: 3.701069W
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 |
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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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On two of it's several peaks are cairns,made entirely of the local gritstone boulders,mainly of a uniform loaf size,with larger boulders on the kerbs.
The southernmost cairn (at this location) is on the highest peak and has a trig point as a companion. This cairn has seen some disturbance,with it's centre dug out and mostly missing now. The more northerly cairn is intact,seemingly undisturbed (location of this site is SN82901443).
These cairns are quite close to Saith Maen stone row to the North(approx 1 km) with several other cairns and hut circles in the vicinity.
A curious and officially unverified addition to the Northern cairn, in amongst the very rocky surroudings on the peak, is an untidy ring of large Gritstone slabs (similar to the ones used for Saith Maen) with a single Red Sandstone boulder in the centre of them.
This is the only such boulder on the peaks,and is again similar to the Red Randstone boulder used in Saith Maen itself.
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