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<< Our Photo Pages >> Buwch a'r Llo - Standing Stones in Wales in Ceredigion

Submitted by vicky on Sunday, 29 September 2002  Page Views: 12334

Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Buwch a'r Llo Alternative Name: Y Fuwch a'r Llo, The Cow and Calf
Country: Wales County: Ceredigion Type: Standing Stones
Nearest Town: Aberystwyth  Nearest Village: Bow Street
Map Ref: SN72298335  Landranger Map Number: 135
Latitude: 52.433163N  Longitude: 3.879934W
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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bishop_pam visited on 23rd Jun 2022 - their rating: Cond: 4 Amb: 4 Access: 5

SandyG visited on 21st Mar 2016 - their rating: Cond: 2 Amb: 4 Access: 5 This row is situated next to the public highway and car parking is available next to the eastern stones. The nearby Maen Tarw may have formed part of the stone row.

TimPrevett have visited here

Average ratings for this site from all visit loggers: Condition: 3 Ambience: 4 Access: 5

Buwch a'r Llo
Buwch a'r Llo submitted by Johnny : Buwch ar Llo standing stones in Ceredigion (Vote or comment on this photo)
Standing Stones, possibly a stone alignment, in Ceredigion

Update October 2019: This alignment is featured on the Stone Rows of Great Britain website - see their entry for Buwch a’r Llo, which includes a description, photographs of the alignment and the three individual stones that survive, a plan of the row, plus access information and online links for more information.

The row is also recorded as Coflein NPRN 301687 (Buwch A'r Llo Standing Stones) and Coflein NPRN 418394 (Maen Tarw, Standing Stone).

The three standing stones which form the alignment are scheduled as CD231 (Buwch a'r Llo Standing Stones on the CADW website.

The SRoGB notes: "the considerable size of the gap between the two eastern stones and the western one and its position next to a road means that it is not possible to be certain that this is a stone row. However, a stone row interpretation best fits the surviving evidence and the setting is certainly typical for this type of monument".
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Buwch a'r Llo submitted by SandyG : Plan of the Buwch a’r Llo stone row (Source: Google Earth). (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Buwch a'r Llo submitted by carregwen : Buwch a'r Llo, with storm clouds approaching. (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Buwch a'r Llo submitted by HarryTwenty : Looking eastwards. (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Buwch a'r Llo submitted by HarryTwenty : Looking NE. (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Buwch a'r Llo submitted by HarryTwenty : Cow stone.

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Buwch a'r Llo submitted by HarryTwenty : Close up of the stones looking NE-ish.

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Buwch a'r Llo submitted by HarryTwenty : Looking west over the stones. There's another stone just down the road on its own which may (or may not) be part of an overall stone row. Seems unlikely to be a coincidence that these two stones were placed here and another one independently placed just up the road, especially as it's a lot smaller than these and doesn't make much of a boundary statement if it was meant to be a territorial marke...

Buwch a'r Llo
Buwch a'r Llo submitted by HarryTwenty : Looking NW. Got bitten by ticks standing here, long trousers recommended for this bit : |

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Buwch a'r Llo submitted by HarryTwenty : Looking SE.

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Buwch a'r Llo submitted by HarryTwenty : Looking SE with Esgair Nant-y-moch in the background.

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Buwch a'r Llo submitted by HarryTwenty : Looking east at the stones beside the road.

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Buwch a'r Llo submitted by SandyG : The eastern end of the row?

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Buwch a'r Llo submitted by SandyG : The eastern pair. View from the north.

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Buwch a'r Llo submitted by SandyG : The pair of stones at the eastern end of the row. View from west.

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Buwch a'r Llo submitted by Bladup : Buwch a'r Llo standing stones in the frost.

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Buwch a'r Llo submitted by Bladup : Buwch a'r Llo.

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Buwch a'r Llo submitted by trish3 : Buwch a'r llo before the rains came.

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Buwch a'r Llo submitted by TimPrevett : A view of the cow stone only, with deep cleft which runs down its centre.

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Buwch a'r Llo submitted by TimPrevett : A colour shot of the pair, the cow being a good 5 feet tall, and the calf around 3 feet. Notice the poor visibility and dripping grass. I had less than 2 minutes out of the car but still returned soaking wet to the skin.

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Buwch a'r Llo submitted by TimPrevett : View with the calf nearer; cattle grid to rear with another standing stone not far away.

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Buwch a'r Llo submitted by TimPrevett : A view of the mother and offspring, with disorientating greyness of fog and rain.

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Buwch a'r Llo submitted by TimPrevett : Not an encouraging sight through the windscreen when you pull up at a site... torrential rain at the Cow and Calf, nessitating a briefer trip than hoped for. (1 comment)

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Buwch a'r Llo submitted by TimPrevett : Looking down to the Cow and Calf from another stone to their north above the road.

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Buwch a'r Llo submitted by TimPrevett : The stones of the Cow and Calf, in heavy rain and fog.

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Re: Buwch a'r Llo by HarryTwenty on Saturday, 16 September 2023
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Further information (Coflein) on the stones including the Bronze Age trackway theory of Simon Timberlake:

Two standing stones, known locally as the `Cow and Calf?. On south side of road immediately above marshy area. Largest (west) stone is approx. 2m in height x 1.25m girth; a bulky glacial boulder with no evidence for dressing. Smaller (east) stone approx. 4m further east, approx. 1.25m in height x 1.25m in girth; of squat form with dished upper surface. No markings evident on either stone.

Third stone to west in forestry struck by forestry machine at some point in 20th century and broken in-situ.

A theory advanced by Simon Timberlake is that these stones mark the line of a longer Bronze Age trackway coming up from the west coast, via Clarach, Gogerddan and Penrhyncoch, and climbing into the foothills around Plynlimon passing other standing stones (see: Timberlake, S., 2001. Mining and prospection for metals in Early Bronze Age Britain: making claims within the archaeological landscape. In: Bruck, ed., Bronze Age Landscapes: Tradition and Transformation. Oxbow, 179-192.).

Visited by T. Driver, RCAHMW, 15 November 2007. Text compiled by T. Driver from Os495card; SN78SW, 8; J.Wiles 23.07.04; R.S. Jones, Cambrian Archaeological Projects, 2004.
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Buwch a'r Llo Street View by SteveDut on Monday, 29 March 2010
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Re: Buwch a'r Llo by coldrum on Tuesday, 07 July 2009
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Coflein record:

http://www.coflein.gov.uk/en/site/301687/details/BUWCH+A%27R+LLO+STANDING+STONES/
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Re: Buwch a'r Llo by TimPrevett on Saturday, 02 September 2006
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Reached via a long single track road with occasional passing place - either from Ponterwyd, or a route which detours from the west, from Aberyswyth.

A large stone sits above these two, on the north side of the road, as well as another further along on the left (west).
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