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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Arthog Standing StonesCountry: Wales County: Gwynedd Type: Stone Circle
Nearest Town: Barmouth Nearest Village: Arthog
Map Ref: SH65261393
Latitude: 52.706217N Longitude: 3.995713W
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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bishop_pam visited on 8th Aug 2022 - their rating: Cond: 4 Amb: 4 Access: 4
SandyG visited on 31st Jul 2016 - their rating: Cond: 3 Amb: 4 Access: 4 Car parking is available at SH 65755 14316. Walk south along the public highway to SH 65863 14226. From here head south along a footpath to SH 65545 13823. Then head west to SH 65288 13938. The row is in the field on your left and can be seen clearly. Permission to enter the field will need to be sought locally.
Originally interpreted as a stone circle, the surviving evidence best fits the idea that this is a kerbed cairn associated with a truncated stone alignment. It has been suggested by Lynch that stones C and D “may have been moved when the monument was incorporated into a field wall” (Lynch, 1995, 56). Whilst this suggestion cannot be wholly refuted, the stones stand some distance from the former field wall and tantalisingly the form of the site is very reminiscent of the stone alignments at Lakehead Hill East and Merrivale 3, where stones of earlier stone rows had been partly incorporated into a later cairn. On balance, the lack of any evidence to support the field wall interpretation combined with the powerful parallels lends considerable support to the hypothesis that this site represents a stone alignment. Final confirmation, as with so many rows, may only be possible after excavation.
PAB visited on 1st Jun 2014 - their rating: Cond: 3 Amb: 4 Access: 3
Penbron have visited here
Average ratings for this site from all visit loggers: Condition: 3.33 Ambience: 4 Access: 3.67
Six stones survive with a hole for a seventh, with four other stones located about 2 meters east of the others. Some of the stones have been used as gateposts and one lies recumbent in the field a few meters from the site. The ten remaining stones range in height from 1 meter to 0.4 meters.
For more information see Coflein NPRN 302887.
Update September 2019: This probable single stone row is recorded on the Stone Rows of Great Britain website - see their entry for the Arthog Standing Stones, which includes a description, photographs, a plan of the stone row and its associated kerbed cairn, plus a discussion as to its interpretation, and access information.
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