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Submitted by NickyD on Sunday, 17 January 2016 Page Views: 6985
Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: FennifachCountry: Wales County: Powys Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Nearest Town: Brecon Nearest Village: Cradoc
Map Ref: SO017302 Landranger Map Number: 160
Latitude: 51.961561N Longitude: 3.432067W
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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NickyD visited on 1st Jan 2016 - their rating: Cond: 4 Amb: 4 Access: 4
The stone is at least 6 ft high and 4ft wide. Unfortunately you approach the stone from the side that is covered with ivy so it would be easy to walk past it unless you turned around after and looked back. It's in a nice spot at the foot of the hillfort.
We visited in Winter so there was probably much less undergrowth making it fairly easy to spot (with an OS map though!). We came along Cradoc Road from Brecon, passed Oakfield Park on the left, followed the road left and pulled in to the entrance to Llyn Gludy, opposite Sawmill Bungalow. It was a short walk up the track until it branched off left up the old dismantled railway. We followed this for a few minutes and used the OS map to work out it was somewhere on our right. However it was actually down the little embankment of the railway and alongside the track we had started following earlier, so it's probably easier to stay on that from the start!
More at Coflein, who say that it's age is disputed.
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