<< Our Photo Pages >> Sling (Llandegai) - Chambered Tomb in Wales in Gwynedd

Submitted by TimPrevett on Sunday, 21 July 2002  Page Views: 12434

Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Sling (Llandegai) Alternative Name: Yr Hen Allor
Country: Wales
NOTE: This site is 1.095 km away from the location you searched for.
County: Gwynedd Type: Chambered Tomb
Nearest Town: Bethesda
Map Ref: SH60556695  Landranger Map Number: 115
Latitude: 53.181320N  Longitude: 4.088197W
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
 2 Ambience:
5Superb
4Good
3Ordinary
2Not Good
1Awful
0No data.
 2 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.
 1 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
 4

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LouiseHartfield visited on 6th Aug 2024 - their rating: Cond: 2 Amb: 4 Not easy to find but thanks to the additional photos with arrow detailing site, managed to find it on second attempt. Large capstone supported by one upright. Several stones in undergrowth in front of tomb suggest to me a passage (maybe?) at some point.

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Sling (Llandegai)
Sling (Llandegai) submitted by TimPrevett : The ruinous Sling chambered tomb. A bit of a devil to find. Don't be distracted by the stones on the ridge next to the road. There is also a misleading stone in the middle of the field to the west. This is in deep undergrowth! (Vote or comment on this photo)
Ruinous chambered tomb hidden in the undergrowth at Sling.

A bit of a devil to find. Don't be distracted by the stones on the ridge next to the road. There is also a misleading stone in the middle of the field to the west. This is in deep undergrowth!
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Sling (Llandegai)
Sling (Llandegai) submitted by postman : After a good bramble clear in 2006 (Vote or comment on this photo)

Sling (Llandegai)
Sling (Llandegai) submitted by postman : In dappled light. (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Sling (Llandegai) submitted by Bladup : Sling (Llandegai) burial chamber. (Vote or comment on this photo)

Sling (Llandegai)
Sling (Llandegai) submitted by Bladup : Sling (Llandegai) burial chamber upright and capstone. (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Sling (Llandegai) submitted by Bladup : Sling (Llandegai) burial chamber, The top of the large overgrown capstone. (Vote or comment on this photo)

Sling (Llandegai)
Sling (Llandegai) submitted by Bladup : Sling (Llandegai) burial chamber.

Sling (Llandegai)
Sling (Llandegai) submitted by postman : Back of the capstone, back in 2006.

Sling (Llandegai)
Sling (Llandegai) submitted by TimPrevett : In a field adjoining the Sling chamber, there is a hitherto recorded mound of apparent cairn material, with what seems to be a large capstone. You're thinking what I'm thiking... well, watch this space. I have been in touch with some folk in the know who feel this might be something of note... here's hoping. (1 comment)

Sling (Llandegai)
Sling (Llandegai) submitted by TimPrevett

Sling (Llandegai)
Sling (Llandegai) submitted by TimPrevett : It's in the undergrowth, with telegraph pole and arrow for reference! Hopefully will save you the forty minutes it took me to find it... The ruinous Sling chambered tomb. A bit of a devil to find. Don't be distracted by the stones on the ridge next to the road. There is also a misleading stone in the middle of the field to the west. This is in deep undergrowth!

Sling (Llandegai)
Sling (Llandegai) submitted by TimPrevett : The ruinous Sling chambered tomb. A bit of a devil to find. Don't be distracted by the stones on the ridge next to the road. There is also a misleading stone in the middle of the field to the west. This is in deep undergrowth!

Sling (Llandegai)
Sling (Llandegai) submitted by TimPrevett

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Re: Sling (Llandegai) by TheCaptain on Sunday, 21 January 2018
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My notes from Sept 2016.
Having found where it was marked on the map, but it’s not at all clear exactly where it is. After lots of fruitless wandering up and down the various lanes, I get the new Megalithic Portal app running on my phone, and it tells me it has an accuracy rating of 4, with a 4 figure grid ref, so that should get me to within 10 metres of it. This of course requires getting over a barbed wire fence and thorny hedge, but I eventually find a path round, but after a lot more fruitless searching I cannot find it. Looking at the picture of it, it can only be very well buried under some very dense undergrowth, or the given position is wrong. After well over half an hour I give up.
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Re: Sling (Llandegai) by rogerkread on Tuesday, 28 June 2011
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Many thanks to ShropshireTraveller for the photo with telegraph pole - would have been very difficult to find otherwise! Encountered the owner of the field who was understandably wary of visitors entering his field which currently (6/11) has a mare and young foal in it, but perfectly happy once he knew it was the archaeology I was interested in.
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