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Submitted by TimPrevett on Sunday, 11 April 2004  Page Views: 8047

Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Maen Addwyn Alternative Name: Maenaddwyn
Country: Wales County: Anglesey Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)

Map Ref: SH461834  Landranger Map Number: 114
Latitude: 53.325080N  Longitude: 4.312203W
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.
 3 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
 3

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cactus_chris visited on 1st Oct 2020 - their rating: Cond: 5 Amb: 5 Access: 5 Right by the side of the road (limited parking).

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Maen Addwyn
Maen Addwyn submitted by TimPrevett : This impressive sized menhir sits in the field boundary adjacent a road, opposite a school, which out of school hours makes handy parking for viewing the stone. Mynydd Bodafon is visible to the north west, otherwise flat fields are visible in all directions. The stone is being encroached upon by the spread of ivy. My last visit (actually 15th June 1999) showed relatively little ivy on the st... (Vote or comment on this photo)
This impressive sized menhir sits in the field boundary adjacent a road, opposite a school, which out of school hours makes handy parking for viewing the stone.

Mynydd Bodafon is visible to the north west, otherwise flat fields are visible in all directions.

The stone is being encroached upon by the spread of ivy. My last visit (actually 15th June 1999) showed relatively little ivy on the stone; by April 2004 the growth was much more significant.
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Maen Addwyn
Maen Addwyn submitted by guile : Maenaddwyn standing stone. The ivy has been trimmed in the currently fashionable (at least with the Anglesey youth) "shaved back and sides, long on top please." (5 comments - Vote or comment on this photo)

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Maen Addwyn submitted by TimPrevett : This impressive sized menhir sits in the field boundary adjacent a road, opposite a school, which out of school hours makes handy parking for viewing the stone. Mynydd Bodafon is visible to the north west, otherwise flat fields are visible in all directions. The stone is being encroached upon by the spread of ivy. My last visit (actually 15th June 1999) showed relatively little ivy on the st... (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Maen Addwyn submitted by TimPrevett (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Maen Addwyn submitted by cactus_chris : 20201001--Maen Addwyn Standing Stone, Anglesey (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Maen Addwyn submitted by Antonine : 2021

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Maen Addwyn submitted by guile : Picture from about 1910. Taken from "The Megalithic Remains of Anglesey" by E. Neil Baynes F.S.A.

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Maen Addwyn submitted by raythemapman : After visiting the Maen Addwyn Standing Stone we parked in a laybye 150m to the South of it. I looked to my left and what looked like a standing Stone came into view, I used my binoculars to confirm it was a Standing Stone. It is located at grid ref SH456834, on checking the map I found it was 500m South of Maen Addwyn Standing Stone and 500m East of Llech Golman Standing Stone forming a line of 3...

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Maen Addwyn submitted by raythemapman : This stone should called The Ivy Stone. I have been visiting this Stone for over 10 years, in October 2008 the Ivy had nearly covered the whole surface of this large Stone, Only about 20% could be seen on the N/E face.

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Maen Addwyn submitted by MAIGO : I visited it in October, 2007. It seems that it is covered by leaves on a roadside tree from a road. (2 comments)

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Maen Addwyn submitted by enkidu41 : SH 460834 This is 10' high by 3' wide and almost 3' thick.

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Re: Maen Addwyn by coldrum on Monday, 29 March 2010
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Re: Maen Addwyn & Pi by TimPrevett on Monday, 23 April 2007
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If you visit here, and the school isn't in use (the school's layby is practically opposite the stone), a fascinating aside is that the Mathematician William Jones, who had something important to do with using the symbol Pi, was a resident and elder of the neighbourhood - look for the plaque - but in Welsh only...
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    Re: Maen Addwyn & Pi by Dumu on Friday, 23 October 2020
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    William Jones FRS (1675-1749), a friend of Sir Isaac Newton and Sir Edmund Halley, was the pioneering mathematician who innovated using the Greek letter 𝛑 to refer to the ratio between the circumference and diameter of a circle. (Spelling it out like that shows you why he thought the symbol would catch on!)

    Jones was born not far away from the Ysgol Gynradd Ty Mawr primary school which stands across the road from the Maenaddwyn menhir. Sadly the school closed down in 2010 and now appears to be a private residence, but the old school sign and the blue plaque commemorating William Jones remain.

    I've no idea why the menhir was erected – whether it had religious or political significance, or both – but it's quite likely that Jones knew the stone if the road through Capel Coch has been in the same place for a few hundred years.

    NB: this stone should be classified 'Access: 5' as the stone is both drivable to and accessible by the disabled. It's directly adjacent to the road, and as an earlier post on this page says, there is even parking!

    There is a photo of the school on Wikimedia Commons.
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Re: Maen Addwyn by TimPrevett on Tuesday, 20 June 2006
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This stone is near completely swamped with ivy, and now resembles a tree / bush as of June 2006. Missed it on the first pass yesterday, and wondered how I could miss this huge stone, having been a few times before... then I remembered.
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