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<< Our Photo Pages >> Gelligaer Common Standing Stone - Standing Stone (Menhir) in Wales in Mid Glamorgan

Submitted by enkidu41 on Saturday, 20 November 2004  Page Views: 15882

Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Gelligaer Common Standing Stone
Country: Wales County: Mid Glamorgan Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Nearest Town: Merthyr Tydfil  Nearest Village: Bedlinog
Map Ref: SO10340340  Landranger Map Number: 171
Latitude: 51.722128N  Longitude: 3.299401W
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.
3 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.
4 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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Gelligaer Common Standing Stone
Gelligaer Common Standing Stone submitted by TheCaptain : Long and slender stone leaning at a very precarious angle, high on Gelligaer Common above the Welsh valleys to the southeast of Merthyr Tydfil. (Vote or comment on this photo)
This roughly rectangular leaning stone is an early Christian monument lying very close to the Roman road which runs northwards from the Roman fort. It bears an almost obliterated inscription "TEF ROIHI" which may be roughly translated as "The stone of Oihi(?)."

It lies on the south-east edge of a horseshoe-shaped enclosure which is stiil just visible as the remains of a low earthen bank. It was the Romans custom to build roadside tombs and so this site almost certainly marks a burial.

From Coflein "On Gelligaer Common, about 60m to the north-east of a Roman Road formation, lies a post-Roman or Early Christian inscribed stone. As exposed it leans about 45deg. to the north and measures 2.5m long, its section 0.45m by 0.3m at base. It once bore an inscription near the base of its northern face that read NEFROIHI – “the stone of Nía-Froích”, apparently commemorating an Irish warrior, and dating to the late sixth to early seventh centuries. The stone was first noted by Edward Lhuyd in 1693, but the inscription is no longer visible."
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Gelligaer Common Standing Stone
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Gelligaer Common Standing Stone
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Gelligaer Common Standing Stone
Gelligaer Common Standing Stone submitted by TheCaptain : Long and slender stone leaning at a very precarious angle, high on Gelligaer Common above the Welsh valleys to the southeast of Merthyr Tydfil. (Vote or comment on this photo)

Gelligaer Common Standing Stone
Gelligaer Common Standing Stone submitted by TheCaptain (Vote or comment on this photo)

Gelligaer Common Standing Stone
Gelligaer Common Standing Stone submitted by TheCaptain

Gelligaer Common Standing Stone
Gelligaer Common Standing Stone submitted by TheCaptain

Gelligaer Common Standing Stone
Gelligaer Common Standing Stone submitted by TheCaptain

Gelligaer Common Standing Stone
Gelligaer Common Standing Stone submitted by TheCaptain

Gelligaer Common Standing Stone
Gelligaer Common Standing Stone submitted by TheCaptain

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Guided Walk: Gelligaer Common - an archaeological surprise by Andy B on Friday, 08 December 2017
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Gelligaer Common - an archaeological surprise

A memorial stone dating back to the late sixth or early seventh century AD. Along the northern face was once an inscription that read NEFROIHI — ‘the stone of Nía-Froích’. It commemorates an Irish warrior whose name meant something like ‘champion of the heather’ and reminds us of the presence of Irish kingdoms in south Wales during the Dark Ages.

Settling first in Pembrokeshire in the fifth century, the Irish soon expanded and established themselves in their kingdom of Brycheiniog (later Breconshire). This stone
and another at Ystrad between Trefil and Pontsticill to the north may well mark the
southern extent of their influence

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Gelligaer Common - an archaeological surprise
Frank Olding, heritage officer of Blaenau Gwent County Borough Council, takes us on a short walk from the heart of industrial Wales to a remarkable archaeological landscape
http://cadw.gov.wales/docs/cadw/publications/South%20Wales%20Blaenau%20Gwent_EN.pdf

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Gelligaer Common Standing Stone similar to Carn Meini natural bluestones by Andy B on Friday, 08 December 2017
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sem writes:
Have any MegP members visited this stone?
The shape is remarkable similar to natural bluestones (spotted dolerite) found at Carn Meini in Pembrokeshire,
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Re: Gelligaer Common Standing Stone by Andy B on Friday, 02 September 2016
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"The stone on Cefn Gelli-Gaer is situated in a small enclosure which was probably a dug-out Bronze Age barrow"

Petts, D. 2002. The Reuse of Prehistoric Standing Stones in Western Britain? A Critical Consideration of an Aspect of Early Medieval Monument Reuse p.204

https://www.academia.edu/215827/Petts_D._2002._The_Reuse_of_Prehistoric_Standing_Stones_in_Western_Britain_A_Critical_Consideration_of_an_Aspect_of_Early_Medieval_Monument_Reuse
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