<< Our Photo Pages >> Burry Lesser - Standing Stone (Menhir) in Wales in West Glamorgan
Submitted by theCaptain on Tuesday, 20 April 2004 Page Views: 9553
Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Burry LesserCountry: Wales County: West Glamorgan Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Nearest Town: Swansea Nearest Village: Reynoldston
Map Ref: SS4621790076 Landranger Map Number: 159
Latitude: 51.588492N Longitude: 4.221245W
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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There are lots of other blocks of stone nearby, so I wonder whether it has been broken in the past, or this is just field clearance.
Its companion can be seen across the other side of the field to the east, and I have seen it written somewhere that this was in the past an alignment of 3 stones.
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