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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Brwyno-CanolCountry: Wales
NOTE: This site is 0.9 km away from the location you searched for.
County: Ceredigion Type: Stone Row / Alignment
Nearest Town: Machynlleth Nearest Village: Glaspwll
Map Ref: SN71569666
Latitude: 52.552583N Longitude: 3.895803W
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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This single stone row has a length of 4 metres and is made up of 3 medium and large stones with an orientation of 90 degrees. The site sits at an altitude of 261.6 metres and has a view out to sea.
The Coflein record for the Brwyno-Canol Stone Row states that this is a possible prehistoric stone alignment set within a broad 'religious, ritual and funerary' context. The site description tells us: "An alignment of stones is located just inside a forestry plantation, on the southern crest of a ridge above the Afon Brwyno at 255m above sea level close to a junction of old field walls ..... The present alignment is 4m long but may have been considerably longer. A wall to the immediate west incorporates several linear blocks which may have been derived from a longer stone row. At the wall junction (off alignment) is an erect monolith."
The Archwillo record for this monument (PRN 6247) puts the site as Bronze Age Standing Stone/Stone Row but says they were unable to get to the site because of the dense afforestation in the area in 2006.
Update October 2019: This row is featured on the Stone Rows of Great Britain website - see their entry for Brwyno-Canol, which includes a description, photographs of the alignment and the individual stones, a plan of the stone row from a recent survey in September 2019.
The SRoGB notes: "This is not an easy row to get to …. The tracks within the forest are overgrown and it is recommended that a GPS is used to help navigation towards the row".
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