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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Carnedd Wen (Llandderfel)Country: Wales County: Gwynedd Type: Cairn
Nearest Town: Bala Nearest Village: Llandderfel
Map Ref: SJ000352
Latitude: 52.904898N Longitude: 3.488264W
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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Cairn in Gwynedd
Park on the B4391, walk north through felled forestry place, then go up the hill east. This is not a normal looking cairn. It is said by Coflein.... A round cairn 20 meters in diameter and 1m tall, the central part of the cairn is contained by a circular wall 12.5 meters across..... but it is more likely that the retaining wall is the cairn, someone at some time has gone to a lot of trouble to change it's appearance into what we see today, a rather ineffective sheep pen? an over engineered wind break ? The circular wall is at times 5-6 feet thick with entrances at the north and south, the south entrance has what looks like wind shelters built at the end of the wall.
A very strange cairn , but in very pretty countryside, the Berwyns are close and lovely and Snowdonia far but also lovely.
Coflein site no. 303418.
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