<< Our Photo Pages >> Trecastle Mountain Row - Stone Row / Alignment in Wales in Powys
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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Trecastle Mountain Row Alternative Name: Y PigwnCountry: Wales County: Powys Type: Stone Row / Alignment
Nearest Town: Builth Wells Nearest Village: Brecon
Map Ref: SN8327331053 Landranger Map Number: 160
Latitude: 51.965660N Longitude: 3.700426W
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 5th Jul 2014 - their rating: Cond: 2 Amb: 4 Access: 2 Car parking is available at SN 84525 30024. From its a bit of a hike along the track leading west. After about 1.5km head north across open moorland to the row and stone circles. Don’t forget to visit the cairn at SN 83140 30992.
Update August 2019: This stone row is featured on the Stone Rows of Great Britain - see their entry for Y Pigwn (Trecastle Mountain), which includes a description, a plan of the row and its associated cairn, small stone circle and large stone circle, photographs and access information. Their entry also includes a separate plan showing the possible extent of the Y Pigwn stone row.
The stone circles have their own site pages here (see nearby sites below). The stone circles are recorded as Coflein NPRN 104135 and Coflein NPRN 413022, both of which mention: "These circles are not considered to represent the remains of funerary mounds, but have been integrated into a general discourse of ritual circles, thus short lengths of stone alignments, adjacent or nearby (at SN83413101) can be interpreted as 'stone rows' rather than as the remains of field boundaries".
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41m ENE 64° Trecastle Mountain WSW* Stone Circle (SN83313107)
76m ENE 60° Trecastle Mountain ENE* Stone Circle (SN83343109)
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148m E 98° Y Pigwn standing stone* Standing Stone (Menhir) (SN83423103)
151m WSW 240° Y Pigwn cairn 2* Cairn (SN83143098)
253m WNW 301° Y Pigwn cairn 1* Cairn (SN83063119)
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1.6km WSW 248° Mynydd Myddfai Barrow* Round Barrow(s) (SN818305)
1.7km S 185° Cwm Henwen Cairn* Cairn (SN83082939)
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1.8km S 189° Cwm Henwen* Standing Stone (Menhir) (SN82962929)
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2.3km WSW 244° Pen y Bylchau Bronze Age Enclosure* Hillfort (SN81153006)
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2.8km S 178° Gwern-Wyddog* Standing Stone (Menhir) (SN833283)
2.8km ENE 72° Blaen Clydach Fach Cairn 2* Cairn (SN86003185)
2.8km ENE 75° Blaen Clydach Fach Cairn 1* Cairn (SN86043170)
3.7km ESE 118° Tyle Mawr* Cairn (SN86542920)
3.8km SW 225° Mynydd Myddfai Stones* Standing Stones (SN80562843)
3.8km ESE 104° St David's Church, Llywel* Marker Stone (SN86953005)
4.1km SW 231° Carn Pant Meddygon* Round Barrow(s) (SN80062855)
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