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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Craig y Dullfan ring cairn
Country: Wales County: Ceredigion Type: Cairn
Nearest Town: Ponterwyd
Map Ref: SN771887
Latitude: 52.482339N  Longitude: 3.811194W
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.
 1 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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Craig y Dullfan ring cairn
Craig y Dullfan ring cairn submitted by HarryTwenty : Apart from its location at the place where 2 rivers meet it also has a commanding view down the valley. Didn't have time to check but I would guess that on at least a few days of the year the setting sun would shine down here. Would make a poignant scene. (Vote or comment on this photo)
The monument comprises the remains of a ring cairn, probably dating to the Bronze Age (c.2300 BC - 800 BC) and situated within open moorland on a SW-facing terrace below Banc Lechwedd-Mawr and above the Afon Hyddgen. The well-preserved ring cairn is circular on plan and measures about 6.3m in diameter within a grass-covered stony ring bank about 0.9m in thickness and up to 0.2m in height. The interior is level and appears to have been deliberately infilled with stones. A possible conjoined cairn is situated immediately to the NE; this cairn measures 6m in diameter and about 0.3m in height. A ruinous drystone shelter and modern marker cairn have been built into its summit.

The monument is of national importance for its potential to enhance our knowledge of prehistoric burial and ritual practices. The monument is well preserved and is an important relic of a prehistoric funerary and ritual landscape. It retains significant archaeological potential, with a strong probability of the presence of both intact burial or ritual deposits and environmental and structural evidence. The association of the ritual ring cairn and probable burial cairn - and the apparent structural phasing within the ring cairn itself - further increase the archaeological potential of the site.

The area scheduled comprises the remains described and an area around them within which related evidence may be expected to survive. It is circular and measures 28m in diameter.

Source: Cadw
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Craig y Dullfan ring cairn
Craig y Dullfan ring cairn submitted by HarryTwenty : Looking NE with the setting sun shining on the cairn. It's sited in a very strategic position with great views along the valleys. (2 comments - Vote or comment on this photo)

Craig y Dullfan ring cairn
Craig y Dullfan ring cairn submitted by HarryTwenty : It's a tight squeeze inside. (2 comments - Vote or comment on this photo)

Craig y Dullfan ring cairn
Craig y Dullfan ring cairn submitted by HarryTwenty : Close up. (Vote or comment on this photo)

Craig y Dullfan ring cairn
Craig y Dullfan ring cairn submitted by HarryTwenty : Back of the stone looking NE. (Vote or comment on this photo)

Craig y Dullfan ring cairn
Craig y Dullfan ring cairn submitted by HarryTwenty : It's been split in half. The cairn is up on the terrace behind it. (Vote or comment on this photo)

Craig y Dullfan ring cairn
Craig y Dullfan ring cairn submitted by HarryTwenty : Looking SW with Drosgol in the background.

Craig y Dullfan ring cairn
Craig y Dullfan ring cairn submitted by HarryTwenty : Interesting landmark.

Craig y Dullfan ring cairn
Craig y Dullfan ring cairn submitted by HarryTwenty : Split by frost, humans or lightning? (or maybe all three).

Craig y Dullfan ring cairn
Craig y Dullfan ring cairn submitted by HarryTwenty : Interesting rock to the south of the cairn, it may just be natural and not connected but is interesting all the same.

Craig y Dullfan ring cairn
Craig y Dullfan ring cairn submitted by HarryTwenty : Looking southwards up at the cairn.

Craig y Dullfan ring cairn
Craig y Dullfan ring cairn submitted by HarryTwenty : Looking eastwards with Drosgol on the left and Banc Llechwedd-mawr on the right. The sun sets along the ridge in the background from right to left from the end of August to the end of September, it sets directly above Afon Llechwedd-mawr around the middle of September. From a symbolic point of view looking from the cairn, the dying sun goes back to the underworld to the place of the ancestor...

Craig y Dullfan ring cairn
Craig y Dullfan ring cairn submitted by HarryTwenty : Looking along the Llechwedd-mawr valley after the sun has gone down.

Craig y Dullfan ring cairn
Craig y Dullfan ring cairn submitted by HarryTwenty : The original footprint is in the foreground with the later vandalism in the background. (2 comments)

Craig y Dullfan ring cairn
Craig y Dullfan ring cairn submitted by HarryTwenty : Great views.

Craig y Dullfan ring cairn
Craig y Dullfan ring cairn submitted by HarryTwenty : Looking NE up at the cairn on its terrace.

Craig y Dullfan ring cairn
Craig y Dullfan ring cairn submitted by HarryTwenty : Sunset on September 25th, 2 days after the equinox.

Craig y Dullfan ring cairn
Craig y Dullfan ring cairn submitted by HarryTwenty : Looking eastwards along the Afon LLechwedd-mawr valley at the setting sun.

Craig y Dullfan ring cairn
Craig y Dullfan ring cairn submitted by HarryTwenty : Looking NE up at Banc Llechwedd-mawr, it has cairns on top on the right.

Craig y Dullfan ring cairn
Craig y Dullfan ring cairn submitted by HarryTwenty : Looking SE at the cairn in the centre of the picture, it sits on a small terrace. Pumlumon Fach in the background.

Craig y Dullfan ring cairn
Craig y Dullfan ring cairn submitted by HarryTwenty : Nearly sunset with the valley growing dark. The cairn is over to the right out of shot.

Craig y Dullfan ring cairn
Craig y Dullfan ring cairn submitted by HarryTwenty : Showing the western spread of the cairn.

Craig y Dullfan ring cairn
Craig y Dullfan ring cairn submitted by HarryTwenty : Looking down the Afon LLechwedd-mawr valley. The damage to the cairn can be seen more clearly here.

Craig y Dullfan ring cairn
Craig y Dullfan ring cairn submitted by HarryTwenty : This is not an easy site to reach but somebody obviously made the effort and then vandalised the cairn by building this. There's some logic in there somewhere I guess.

Craig y Dullfan ring cairn
Craig y Dullfan ring cairn submitted by HarryTwenty : Looking SW from the cairn to Drosgol on the right. Considering it is dominated by large cairns up on the surrounding peaks this seems a strange place to put it. It may have had something to do with its proximity to the place where the Afon Hyddgen and Afon LLechwedd-mawr meet.

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