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<< Our Photo Pages >> Hwylfa’r Ceirw Stone Alignment - Stone Row / Alignment in Wales in Conwy

Submitted by LivingRocks on Wednesday, 06 April 2005  Page Views: 11552

Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Hwylfa’r Ceirw Stone Alignment Alternative Name: The Path of the Deer
Country: Wales County: Conwy Type: Stone Row / Alignment
Nearest Town: Llandudno
Map Ref: SH76568409
Latitude: 53.339265N  Longitude: 3.855424W
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
 3 Ambience:
5Superb
4Good
3Ordinary
2Not Good
1Awful
0No data.
 4 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.
 3 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
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markj99 visited on 18th Apr 2011 Hwylfa’r Ceirw Stone Alignment was one of my rare accidental finds. While exploring a ruined footprint of a building on Great Orme my eye was drawn to the S Terminus of the stone row. I followed it downhill towards Marine Drive. The majority of the stones in the row are small however it is a significant presence in its landscape.

Hwylfa’r Ceirw Stone Alignment
Hwylfa’r Ceirw Stone Alignment submitted by LivingRocks : The double stone row of Hwylfa’r Ceirw, view towards the coast. (Vote or comment on this photo)
Stone Row / Alignment in Conwy (Bwrdeistref Sirol). Hwylfa’r Ceirw (The Path of the Deer) is a double avenue of mostly small water worn limestone boulders running for approximately 100m towards the sea on the Great Orme. Legend has it that this is the track by which deer ascended the Orme when there was dry land at the foot of the headland and not sea as today. The age of the rows is difficult to ascertain, they are listed by CARN as prehistoric, but other sources suggest a more recent origin. The stones are situated almost directly below the well at Ffynnon Rufeinig (Roman Well), a copper ore washing site, which may prove, as have the Great Orme Mines, to date to the Bronze Age, rather than being of Roman origin. Although classified by CARN under the heading of religious, ritual & funerary monuments the proximity to Ffynnon Rufeinig suggests the theory that the rows could mark an old route by which copper ore was taken down to the coast for export. Another possibility is that the stones indicated an entrance to a safe harbour for the return of fishing boats; the white limestone would have been clearly visible from the sea.
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Hwylfa’r Ceirw Stone Alignment
Hwylfa’r Ceirw Stone Alignment submitted by Postman : Just before sunrise summer solstice 2012 (Vote or comment on this photo)

Hwylfa’r Ceirw Stone Alignment
Hwylfa’r Ceirw Stone Alignment submitted by TAlanJones : View to the NE along the stone alignment. (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Hwylfa’r Ceirw Stone Alignment submitted by markj99 : Hwylfa’r Ceirw Stone Row viewed from N. (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Hwylfa’r Ceirw Stone Alignment submitted by markj99 : Tallest Stone in Centre of Hwylfa’r Ceirw Stone Row viewed from SW. (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Hwylfa’r Ceirw Stone Alignment submitted by markj99 : Centre of Hwylfa’r Ceirw Stone Row viewed from S. (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Hwylfa’r Ceirw Stone Alignment submitted by Bladup : Hwylfa’r Ceirw Stone Alignment.

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Re: Hwylfa’r Ceirw Stone Alignment by coldrum on Thursday, 07 January 2010
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Coflein entry.

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