<< Our Photo Pages >> Pen-Y-Maen - Standing Stone (Menhir) in Wales in Anglesey
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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Pen-Y-MaenCountry: Wales County: Anglesey Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Nearest Town: Menai Bridge Nearest Village: Llandegfan
Map Ref: SH564739 Landranger Map Number: 114
Latitude: 53.242644N Longitude: 4.15338W
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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MartinPlace visited on 9th Sep 2021 - their rating: Cond: 4 Amb: 4 Access: 3 I turned off the road called Lon Ganol onto the dead end street called Bron Haul and parked on the corner opposite the entrance to a track that leads up to what looks like a small holding, where I was planning enquire about access to the stone. Upon arrival the small holding turned out to be some sort of construction yard. I asked a passer by who directed me instead to the nearest of the three houses, stood by themselves back down on Lon Ganol. Once there a very nice lady was only too happy for me to visit the stone and invited me to go through the fields rather than up the track to the construction yard. Her only stipulation was to make sure I closed the gates as she has horses.
As I approached the second gate I got my first look at the stone in the next field standing out against the skyline. It’s in a great spot at the top of the field where it can be viewed against the skyline from a few different directions. Looking at it from the West it’s has a marvellous backdrop formed by the mountains of Snowdonia.
The stone itself is standing about 1.5m tall. It is very rough with an extremely cragged and jagged surface. It is permeated throughout with thick, vertical seams of quartz which almost give it the appearance of marble in some places. It’s not difficult to see why this stone was selected. There is plenty of lichens, but only on the stone which makes the quartz stand all the more.
It’s a great stone in a fantastic spot. I’m very glad I took the trouble to track it down.
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