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Submitted by cerrig on Sunday, 22 September 2002 Page Views: 12073
Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Cefn Gwernffrwd stone circle Alternative Name: Cefn Gwernffrwd Row IICountry: Wales County: Carmarthenshire Type: Stone Circle
Nearest Town: Builth Wells Nearest Village: Cilycwm / Tregaron
Map Ref: SN7370049328 Landranger Map Number: 146
Latitude: 52.127784N Longitude: 3.84645W
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 |
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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 |
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On Cefn Gwernffrwd is a complex of monuments. In a clearing within the forestry can be found a ring cairn; a stone circle; a tumulus; a definite 3 stone row and another alleged stone row. All these are within 100 meters of one another.
The circle and Tumulus are close together. They are also connected by the compass, as the centre of the circle (marked by a small stone) and the centre of the Tumulus are aligned E/W, exactly 90 degrees true bearing, an Equinox arrangement.
The circle is the usual small stones, mostly swamped by the grass, but recognisable all the same. A bit of gardening soon brings it to life.
The Tumulus is a small neat affair, grass covered with the normal robbers dimple in it's top, and with a most curious addition of 2 "sheep tracks" that go up over the mound and meet at right angles at the top, giving it a hot cross bun appearance. Even stranger as I saw no sheep at all in the forestry?
The clearing it's all contained in within the forestry gives this collection a bit of a fairy tale feel. All around are dark woods, and being so far from anywhere the silence is a little eerie till you get used to it, but the site has a good feel to it. I sat for some time on a very nice mossy tree stump just wondering what this place was all about. A very nice unique site, well worth a return visit.
Do not attempt this journey in a normal road car. You will regret it. Very rough tracks once you leave the tarmac a long way back down in the valley.
Update October 2019: [note: for ease of understanding and recording this site, there are two site pages for this complex - see Cefn Gwernffrwd Row in nearby sites below for the Cefn Gwernffrwd Row I with its associated ring barrow].
This row and stone circle are recorded on the Stone Rows of Great Britain website - see their entry for the Cefn Gwernffrwd Row II which includes a description, photographs of the alignment, plus photographs showing its position in relationship to Cefn Gwernffrwd Row 1 with its associated round barrow, plus access information and links to other online resources for more information (including the 2007 archaeological survey).
The monument is also recorded as part of Coflein NPRN 304529 (Cefn Gwernffrwd, Complex; Pen-y-Rhaglen-Wynt, Complex) and scheduled as CADW CM218 (Cairns and Stone Circle S of Pen-y-Raglan-Wynt.
The SRoGB asks visitors to note: "Dense vegetation means that the row has not been seen since the 1970’s. The adjacent barrow is still clearly visible but even the stone circle is difficult to see during the summer months … The sites are situated within a clearing in a working forest and from time to time access maybe denied when works are being carried out".
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