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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Waen Fechan cairn 1Country: Wales County: Gwynedd Type: Cairn
Nearest Town: Dollgelau
Map Ref: SH69621666
Latitude: 52.731813N Longitude: 3.932306W
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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Not much more than a hundred yards from the Woodland saddle cairn, another cairn is supposed to be under the wall north of the kerb cairn, but I couldn't find it. But I did find the other cairn to the SSE. Neither of them are as good as the kerb cairn. Its more or less complete, a bit of robbing of cairn material as expected, but the kerbing is very good, the larger stones being at the south east, smaller north east. Kicking the gorse out of the way and revealing the kerbing was very satisfying.
Coflein No. 302968 - "Cairn with kerb, east of Waen Fechan".
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