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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Carreg Leidr Alternative Name: The Robber's Stone
Country: Wales County: Anglesey Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)

Map Ref: SH446843 Landranger Map Number: 114
Latitude: 53.332725N Longitude: 4.335146W
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

4 Ambience:

5	Superb
4	Good
3	Ordinary
2	Not Good
1	Awful
0	No data.

3 Access:

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.

3 Accuracy:

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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cactus_chris visited on 17th Mar 2024 - their rating: Cond: 5 Amb: 5 Access: 5 Easy to park near to the Clorach Wells site and walk back up to the junction and up the hill. Stone is in the field which is much higher than the road. Not accessible without trespass, but is visible from the road when vegetation is low.

shawid visited on 1st Mar 2009 - their rating: Cond: 4 Amb: 3 Access: 4

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Average ratings for this site from all visit loggers: Condition: 4.5 Ambience: 4 Access: 4.5

**Carreg Leidr** submitted by Stu : Clorach (Vote or comment on this photo)

Standing Stone in Anglesey

SWW Mynydd Bodafon. I first attempted to visit this stone in June 1999, but despite ¼ hour searching, with assistance of a 1:50000 map, I could not find it. Returning in late September 2000 with autumn beginning to bite well, the hedges and foliage were considerably less obfuscating than at the height of summer.

To find it, I highly recommend using a 1:25000 map (Explorer 263); just up the road from Clorach-Bach, the menhir is behind a hedge and fence, up a steep embankment. The first kink in the road heading northwest is when to look right; the stone should be visible peeking through the undergrowth, overlooking the road. The fence around the field, at the time of visiting, was incomplete in places, giving easy access, despite the very steep embankment. The style of the stone reminded me very much of some at Stanton Drew, and its red colour brought to mind the lovely ochre of the Knap Down standing stone in Devon.

Page 21 of Rumours and Oddities from North Wales by Meirion Hughes and Wayne Evans, speaks of folklore concerning this stone. Two of the islands saints would meet near here; on one occasion, a man stole a Bible from a local church and given the holy location, he was turned into stone. Furthermore, the stone is alleged to leap from the ground and run thrice around the field at midnight on Christmas Eve.
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