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<< Our Photo Pages >> Cilgerran stone - Standing Stone (Menhir) in Wales in Pembrokeshire

Submitted by TheCaptain on Monday, 23 May 2022  Page Views: 1443

Date UncertainSite Name: Cilgerran stone
Country: Wales County: Pembrokeshire Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Nearest Town: Cardigan  Nearest Village: Cilgerran
Map Ref: SN1945942671
Latitude: 52.052936N  Longitude: 4.634523W
Condition:
5Perfect
4Almost Perfect
3Reasonable but with some damage
2Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
0No data.
-1Completely destroyed
4 Ambience:
5Superb
4Good
3Ordinary
2Not Good
1Awful
0No data.
4 Access:
5Can be driven to, probably with disabled access
4Short walk on a footpath
3Requiring a bit more of a walk
2A long walk
1In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find
0No data.
4 Accuracy:
5co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates
4co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map
3co-ordinates scaled from a bad map
2co-ordinates of the nearest village
1co-ordinates of the nearest town
0no data
5

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Cilgerran stone submitted by Woodsman : Home again. Many hands make it real (Vote or comment on this photo)
Standing stone at Cilgerran football club, once fallen but now re-erected in May 2022. Woodsman writes: On our local football pitch there was a large stone laying down, with a hole drilled in it, presumably where it was used for a gatepost. The OS map from 1890 shows two standing stones in the field, both missing now and since 1920. A corner chipped off the stone when moved by a digger shows an interesting granite like structure possibly dolerite. The local stone is slate, and we are close to the Preselis, source of the bluestones at stone henge.

Theory: this stone is one of the original standing stones from this site repurposed as a gatepost about a hundred years ago. Lining up the old map on a modern aerial image has given a rough location.

Information from Woodsman, more in our forum.

Note: 22 May 2022 was the culmination of a few months of dialogue and thinking, to make a dream real. A wonderful demonstration of the power of community pulling together to make the immovable object float and slot into position.
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Cilgerran stone submitted by Woodsman : The stone rolled home, settled in nicely (Vote or comment on this photo)

Cilgerran stone
Cilgerran stone submitted by Woodsman : With some careful digging it slid into place. (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Cilgerran stone submitted by Woodsman : Communal tamping. Everyone wanted to get stuck in (Vote or comment on this photo)

Cilgerran stone old map extract
Cilgerran stone old map extract submitted by Woodsman : This is the old map that guided us to where to locate the Cilgerran stone. (2 comments - Vote or comment on this photo)

Cilgerran stone
Cilgerran stone submitted by Woodsman : Before we moved the stone

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Re: The stone came home by ArchAstro on Monday, 27 June 2022
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I couldn't resist checking out the possible declination values along the line connecting the two original stones (according to the map you used) and this is the result:

+12.4 to the north (Bronze Age: Spica or Elnath SET)
-43.7 to the south (Bronze Age: Fomalhaut RISE)
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The stone came home by Andy B on Monday, 23 May 2022
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Woodsman writes: Saturday 21st May was the culmination of a few months of dialogue and thinking, to make a dream real. A wonderful demonstration of the power of community pulling together to make the immovable object float and slot into position.

Under the guidance of the generous spirited people from Stone Dancers http://www.stonedancers.co.uk/ I had prepared the materials:

Wooden levers 7-8 ft long 3-4" diameter x 2
Hazel rods 2.5-3ft long 1-2" diameter x 30
Scaffold planks x 6
2" planks 6ft x 2
Fulcrums 4"x6" by 1.5-2ft
Stollage (blocks of wood)
Wedges
Ropes/straps

We met on site, and got to know our stone, placing our hands on it, overlapping our little fingers, describing what would happen and invoking energy into it and chanting deep reverberating Ohms.

Levering and blocking it up, until the 2" planks could be slid unerneath, then lifting those to get the scaffold plank rails in place. Then lifting again with levers to get the rollers between the planks, our stone fairly floated the length of a football field. With 3 pulling, 2 stering, 1 directing and all helping to move planks and rollers, within an hour the stone was next to its new-old site.

A discussion about orientation, agreeing to align the hole with the winter solstice dawn and summer solstice sunset. Lacking a compass we guaged that from the position of the midday sun and then broke the ground. The socket was carefully carved into the clay and shattered slate to recieve about a third of the height and mass of the stone.

A circle was formed and offerings placed in the hole: a hagstone with a hole, a coin from this year, a piece of quartz from Pumlumon Fawr (the highest point on the cambrian mountains & source of many rivers) water from the Afon Teifi, a feather and flowers picked by children in the meadow.

With a little sub-base (40mm to dust crushed rock) and lime, the stone was then pivoted on a roller and slotted into place. Wiggled into alignment and packed with more sub-base and lime, tamped down with sticks. Finally a little earth to restore the original ground level. And there she sits, looking like it was always so and will be so for more than any of our brief lifetimes.

A short ceremony called in the 4 elements and unified us and the stone with each other and our place in time and space. Home-made wine and last years apple juice was shared with a little offered to the stone, delicious hearty cake was passed around.

Many hands really do make light work, in all senses. Everyone involved expressed how glad they were to be so, it was truly a very special thing to have been part of.
Love and thanks to all who were.
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