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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Mynydd y Betws Alternative Name: BancbrynCountry: Wales County: Carmarthenshire Type: Stone Row / Alignment
Map Ref: SN6893610326
Latitude: 51.776211N Longitude: 3.901117W
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 16th Jan 2012 - their rating: Cond: 3 Amb: 4 Access: 2
Andy B have visited here
"I have spent much of my archaeological working life on Dartmoor and for one moment as we walked along the row I felt as if I had somehow magically been transported in an instant 100miles south. This is important because the form is so identical as to suggest a definite and tangible link between these people. The small size of the stones reflects what was available and even on Dartmoor some of the rows are formed by similar sized stones."
"It has been traced with a hand held GPS for 700m. The row is aligned SW to NE, which is the most common alignment for South West England rows. So it looks like a row, is associated with the sorts of things rows normally hang out with and even the alignment is right! Many of the stones peep through the peat and many more are probably lurking below. The similarity with the English examples is striking."
The discovery of this exciting monument has been tempered by the realisation that it is being cut into three parts by the new roads and the feeling that if it had been known about before it could have perhaps been saved in its entirety. Is it greedy to wish that the whole site could have been protected? It is now too late. The site is delicate and the huge diggers which have been trundling across it have already caused irreparable damage.
Read more, with photos at Heritage Action.
Update September 2019: This row is featured on Sandy's Stone Rows of Great Britain website - see his entry for Bancbryn, which includes a description, photographs, a simplified plan of the alignment showing its relationship with associated cairns; a plan of the upper part of the row; a base mapping of the row and associated monuments, plus access information and links to other online resources for more information.
The SRoGB also includes a number of other pages for this row. These include:
Sea Views (and landscape reveals) at Bancbryn;
Bancbryn Parallels (stone rows sharing characteristics with Bancbryn);
Bancbryn News (June 2017); and
Bancbryn stone alignment – Excavation Report (Draft).
Note: 700+ metre stone row at new wind farm appears to have been missed by archaeologists carrying out the pre-development survey, surely building work must cease until the site is more thoroughly explored, as 'Rescue' are calling for?
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