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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Moel yr Eglwys Alternative Name: Arenig Fawr, Eglwys GlominogCountry: Wales County: Gwynedd Type: Cairn
Nearest Town: Bala Nearest Village: Llidiardau
Map Ref: SH82703695
Latitude: 52.917122N Longitude: 3.745996W
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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Cairn in Gwynedd
Not a nightmare to find, but it is most definitely in the middle of no where, keep going up till the up runs out, there you'll find this cairn. 854 meters up in the air on top of Arenig Fawr mountain on the edge of Snowdonia near Bala.
It was a big and fine cairn once, but it's been mucked about with by the ordnance survey, sheltering walkers, and memorial builders, for this is by far and away the highest point around here, bad weather comes and goes like, well, like the wind on a mountain and a B-17F 'Flying Fortress crashed near here while on night time maneuvers.
Sadly the low clods precluded any views at all, I'm sure it's all out there, somewhere.
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