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Submitted by pab on Thursday, 19 April 2012 Page Views: 5911

Rock ArtSite Name: Chwarel Fawr Stones Alternative Name: Chwarel Cefn Du
Country: Wales County: Gwynedd Type: Rock Art
Nearest Town: Llanberis
Map Ref: SH5549660004
Latitude: 53.117578N Longitude: 4.160632W
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

2 Ambience:

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

4 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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**Chwarel Fawr Stones** submitted by pab : To help in locating the cluster of stones and the markings, this is the view up towards the site from the old track/tramway route. Sept 2011 (Vote or comment on this photo)

Rock Art in Gwynedd

Near the trackway running above Llanberis, a grouping of rocks caught my eye as worth a bit of a detour. Expectations were fairly low, as this area has been extensively quarried - the name I have used to describe the location actually means quarry, and there are several shown on the relevant OS maps.

The stones themselves may not be an ancient construction, and there is nothing on COFLEIN in this precise spot, but the detour was definitely worth it for the view and for the markings on one of the stones.

This photo shows the markings - they are clearly man made, or at least the clustering & alignment almost certainly precludes any natural origin I could come up with! As with all things, very happy to be proved wrong.

Hopefully someone who has experience of quarrying can say whether this is normal use of the right sort of rock (sharpening tools etc)?

In the meantime, I have worked on the assumption that the cluster of rocks are not inherently 'megalithic', but that the markings are definitely man-made and look good, so constitute 'rock art' and I have used that term in posting this as a new site!
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Nearby Images from Geograph Britain and Ireland:

SH5560 : Improved pasture at the head of Ffridd Glynrhonwy by Eric Jones — by Eric Jones
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SH5559 : Bwlch-y-groes path by Jonathan Wilkins — by Jonathan Wilkins
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SH5559 : The old road to the Cefn Du quarries by David Medcalf — by David Medcalf
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SH5559 : Route of Tramway, Donen Las Quarry by Chris Andrews — by Chris Andrews
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SH5559 : Rubbish Runs at Bryn-mawr Quarry by Eric Jones — by Eric Jones
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