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<< Our Photo Pages >> Pont Scethin Double Cairn - Cairn in Wales in Gwynedd

Submitted by TimPrevett on Tuesday, 18 September 2007  Page Views: 4146

Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Pont Scethin Double Cairn
Country: Wales County: Gwynedd Type: Cairn
Nearest Town: Barmouth
Map Ref: SH62902386
Latitude: 52.794834N  Longitude: 4.034774W
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.
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.
2 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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w650marion visited on 5th Jul 2022 - their rating: Cond: 1 Amb: 4 Access: 3 Coflein led me to believe that there were four mounds from a bronze age cemetery nearby on this side of the road. I don’t believe it! I think the aerial mapping project just saw a trick of the light, and invented them!

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Pont Scethin Double Cairn
Pont Scethin Double Cairn submitted by w650marion : A line of stones (?) in the OS map location of Pont Scethin Double Cairn. No obvious double cairn in this spot! (Vote or comment on this photo)
Cairn in Gwynedd

A cairn west from Pont Scethin, which Coflein records as a 'double cairn'.
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Pont Scethin Double Cairn
Pont Scethin Double Cairn submitted by w650marion : Hunting for the Pont Scethin Double Cairn is good fun for a while - it does not appear to be a double, and is not in line with the square walls of Tynewedd, a little further to the East. But scouring the area, this is the only obvious candidate! So I hope it is right! (Vote or comment on this photo)

Pont Scethin Double Cairn
Pont Scethin Double Cairn submitted by Postman : I saw no sign of a double cairn, whatever one of them is, just this little mound below Moelfre. (Vote or comment on this photo)

Pont Scethin Double Cairn
Pont Scethin Double Cairn submitted by Postman : I saw no sign of a double cairn, whatever one of them is, just this little mound, cracking view though. (Vote or comment on this photo)

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SH6223 : Morning mist by Anonymous
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SH6223 : Cwm Ysgethin by Ian Medcalf
by Ian Medcalf
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SH6223 : Stone above the Ysgethin Valley by Jeremy Bolwell
by Jeremy Bolwell
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SH6223 : On the Taith Ardudwy Way by Jeremy Bolwell
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SH6323 : Beneath Moelfre by John Lucas
by John Lucas
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 219m SSW 208° Pont Scethin B* Standing Stone (Menhir) (SH62792367)
 278m SW 216° Pont Scethin A* Standing Stone (Menhir) (SH62732364)
 468m SW 218° Cairns North of Craig Y Dinas* Cairn (SH626235)
 775m NNW 336° Moelfre (Gwynedd)* Round Cairn (SH62612458)
 890m SE 136° Enclosure and Hut Circle, Pont Scethin* Ancient Village or Settlement (SH63502320)
 899m W 272° Hut Group and Enclosures on SW Slope of Moelfre* Ancient Village or Settlement (SH62002391)
 957m SSW 197° Hut Circle Settlement East of Craig Y Dinas* Ancient Village or Settlement (SH62602295)
 979m SSW 207° Craig-y-Dinas (Dyffryn Ardudwy)* Hillfort (SH62432300)
 1.2km WSW 257° Cors Uchaf E Hut Group* Ancient Village or Settlement (SH61682361)
 1.3km SW 234° Craig-y-Dinas W* Cairn (SH61852315)
 1.6km SSW 194° Llyn Irddyn W* Ancient Village or Settlement (SH62462229)
 1.7km SSW 201° Tumulus, Llyn Irddyn* Round Barrow(s) (SH62232225)
 1.8km WSW 250° Cors Uchaf S* Cairn (SH61232330)
 1.8km WSW 242° Cors-Y-Gedol E* Cairn (SH61252305)
 2.0km W 272° Waun Hir* Ring Cairn (SH609240)
 2.1km WSW 242° Hut Circle, N of Afon Ysgethin* Ancient Village or Settlement (SH61062293)
 2.1km N 350° Cwm Nantcol Tumuli* Cairn (SH626259)
 2.1km WNW 301° Bron Y Foel Recumbent Stone* Portal Tomb (SH611250)
 2.1km SSW 207° Llyn Irddyn Hut Circle* Cairn (SH61862198)
 2.2km W 277° Romano British Homestead with Enclosure, Dyffryn Ardudwy* Ancient Village or Settlement (SH60762420)
 2.2km SW 225° Ponfadog Bridge* Natural Stone / Erratic / Other Natural Feature (SH61312235)
 2.2km WNW 288° Bron y Foel Isaf* Portal Tomb (SH608246)
 2.3km NW 316° Ffynnon Enddwyn* Holy Well or Sacred Spring (SH61372552)
 2.3km WSW 239° Pont Fadog N Hut Circles* Ancient Village or Settlement (SH60842272)
 2.5km SW 221° Cairns SE from Pont Fadog* Cairn (SH612220)
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Re: Pont Scethin Double Cairn by w650marion on Wednesday, 06 July 2022
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The mound can be found, but the GAT records now suggest that it’s “Partially covered and obstructed by dumps of gravel excavated from an adjacent quarry opened by the W.W.A. for hardcore to improve the track up to the Llyn Bodlyn reservoir. Probably a clearance cairn, belonging to the same group as 1091, 1092 etc. Second mound in elevated heap of loose stones (clearance).
Then -
Nothing cairn-like found at or around the recorded location. (Smith, 2001)”

This one and other nearby cairns on this side of the track were found via an aerial mapping project from photos (1996) for example these four “bronze age earthen mounds” nearby and close to the track. Not a sign of them on the ground!
https://coflein.gov.uk/en/site/302817/
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Re: Pont Scethin Double Cairn by w650marion on Wednesday, 06 March 2019
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Access is easy - it's close to the track; but difficult to find, so the condition must be poor. The land is boggy and mossy, there is only one solid low mound covered in grass. Actual location possibly SH62952390. I would class the ambience as quite high - I love the Ysgethin valley!
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Re: Pont Scethin Double Cairn by TimPrevett on Tuesday, 18 September 2007
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Went very close to this on Saturday, but we'd had 8 hours of walking by this point. Knackered isn't a strong enough term for how we felt, and the sun by 7pm was westering rapidly. Hopefully another time for this.
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