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Rock ArtSite Name: Maen Cattwg Alternative Name: Maen Catwg; Gelli-Gaer CarvingCountry: Wales
NOTE: This site is 0.4 km away from the location you searched for.
County: Mid Glamorgan Type: Rock Art
Nearest Town: Gelligaer
Map Ref: ST12709742
Latitude: 51.668747N Longitude: 3.263746W
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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trystan_hughes visited on 6th Nov 2015 - their rating: Cond: 3 Amb: 3 Access: 4
druid visited - their rating: Cond: 3 Amb: 2 Access: 2
druid visited - their rating: Cond: 3 Amb: 2 Access: 3
Average ratings for this site from all visit loggers: Condition: 3 Ambience: 2.33 Access: 3
Directions: Park at the Cross Inn, Heol Adam, Hengoed, Gelligaer, Glamorgan. Walk about a hundred yards up Heol Adam until you pass a squat red building on your right. The stile is on your left. Cross the field to the gate into the second field. Visible on your right is the stone, in the middle of that field.
You'll notice that there are stones underneath the main stone. Perhaps one day there'll be an excavation there, to see if it really is the capstone of a cromlech. In the meantime, mind the horses ( see video ).
Text by Laurence Peddle (Laurencewithau)
For more information see Coflein site no. 93097, an extract of which reads: "A roughly rectangular prostrate stone, 2.6m by 1.7m and 0.6m thick. There are 33-50 cup-marks on the upper surface of the stone, which has been suggested to have been the capstone of a collapsed megalithic chamber ... Details of a second carved stone bearing peck-marked decoration, located close to Maen Catwg in 1990 ... The rectangular stone bore an arc of 6 small peck marks towards one pointed corner of its upper surface, associated with a line of 3 peck marks extending from the arc."
The Northern Antiquarian (TNA) also features a page for this site - see their entry for Maen Cattwg, Gelligaer, Glamorganshire, which also gives directions for finding the site from Galligaer, together with a brief archaeology & history.
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