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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Carreg Wen Fawr Y Rugos Stone Row
Country: Wales County: Powys Type: Stone Row / Alignment
 Nearest Village: Wern
Map Ref: SO1328417568
Latitude: 51.849946N  Longitude: 3.260338W
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
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4Good
3Ordinary
2Not Good
1Awful
0No data.
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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
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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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SandyG visited on 5th Sep 2018 - their rating: Cond: 3 Amb: 4 Access: 2 Limited car parking is available at SO 11954 12966. From here walk along the private road to SO 11152 14998 and then follow the footpath north to the row. Alternatively the row may be accessed from a large car park at SO 15698 17094.

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Carreg Wen Fawr Y Rugos Stone Row
Carreg Wen Fawr Y Rugos Stone Row submitted by AngieLake : Looking over the fallen longstone which points approx SE here, and lies at right-angles to the end of the row which heads approx NE, to its left here. (Vote or comment on this photo)
Stone Row / Alignment in Powys

Update October 2019: This row is featured on the Stone Rows of Great Britain website - see their entry for Carreg Wen Fawr Y Rugos, which includes a description, photographs of the alignment and the individual stones, a plan of the row from a recent survey in September 2018, access information and links to other online resources for more information.

The row is also recorded as Coflein NPRN 243335 (Stone Row, Carreg Wen Fawr Y Rugos 1) and scheduled as part of CADW's entry for BR354 (Carreg Wen Fawr y Rugos cairn cemetery), which adds: "The cemetery contains the remains of at least three round burial cairns, two ring cairns and a stone row and is situated within unenclosed moorland on a terrace on a NE-facing ridge of the Brecon Beacons, above the confluence of the Afon Crawnon and the River Usk".
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Carreg Wen Fawr Y Rugos Stone Row
Carreg Wen Fawr Y Rugos Stone Row submitted by SandyG : Plan of the upper part of the Carreg Wen Fawr y Rugos stone row (Source: survey at 1:100 by Sandy Gerrard). Recumbent stones are shown green and upright ones black. (Vote or comment on this photo)

Carreg Wen Fawr Y Rugos Stone Row
Carreg Wen Fawr Y Rugos Stone Row submitted by SandyG : Plan of Carreg Wen Fawr y Rugos stone row (Source: survey at 1:100 by Sandy Gerrard). Recumbent stones are shown grey and upright ones black. (Vote or comment on this photo)

Carreg Wen Fawr Y Rugos Stone Row
Carreg Wen Fawr Y Rugos Stone Row submitted by cerrig : The outlier to the row, about 50 meters away, but still part of the alignment. The rest of the row is in the reeds. This view from the North East. (Vote or comment on this photo)

Carreg Wen Fawr Y Rugos Stone Row
Carreg Wen Fawr Y Rugos Stone Row submitted by AngieLake : Another angle on the broken stone in the approx centre of the present row. (Vote or comment on this photo)

Carreg Wen Fawr Y Rugos Stone Row
Carreg Wen Fawr Y Rugos Stone Row submitted by AngieLake : The broken stone in approx the centre of the present row, with what appears to be two smaller stones beside it. (Unless they're pieces that broke off?) This was photographed in May 2008, and I'd not made any notes about that. (Vote or comment on this photo)

Carreg Wen Fawr Y Rugos Stone Row
Carreg Wen Fawr Y Rugos Stone Row submitted by AngieLake : The tops of the stones nearest in line to the fallen longstone, with the top of the broken stone further NE just visible.

Carreg Wen Fawr Y Rugos Stone Row
Carreg Wen Fawr Y Rugos Stone Row submitted by AngieLake : The next stones along the row towards approx NE from the fallen longstone. (Hard to see some of the stones in the long dry grass.) (2 comments)

Carreg Wen Fawr Y Rugos Stone Row
Carreg Wen Fawr Y Rugos Stone Row submitted by AngieLake : At the SW end of the row is a long, fallen, stone with its tapering end facing towards approx SE. The view here is towards approx NE and the Black Mountains. The smaller hill in the valley may be Myarth on the OS map.

Carreg Wen Fawr Y Rugos Stone Row
Carreg Wen Fawr Y Rugos Stone Row submitted by SandyG : Stone at the eastern end of the row. View from south west (Scale 1m).

Carreg Wen Fawr Y Rugos Stone Row
Carreg Wen Fawr Y Rugos Stone Row submitted by SandyG : View from above and north (Scale 1m).

Carreg Wen Fawr Y Rugos Stone Row
Carreg Wen Fawr Y Rugos Stone Row submitted by SandyG : Looking east along the row (Scale 1m).

Carreg Wen Fawr Y Rugos Stone Row
Carreg Wen Fawr Y Rugos Stone Row submitted by SandyG : View from above and west of the western length of the row (Scale 1m).

Carreg Wen Fawr Y Rugos Stone Row
Carreg Wen Fawr Y Rugos Stone Row submitted by SandyG : Stones forming the western length of the row. View from west (Scale 1m).

Carreg Wen Fawr Y Rugos Stone Row
Carreg Wen Fawr Y Rugos Stone Row submitted by SandyG : View from west showing the position of the row.

Carreg Wen Fawr Y Rugos Stone Row
Carreg Wen Fawr Y Rugos Stone Row submitted by SandyG : View from the west (Scale 1m).

Carreg Wen Fawr Y Rugos Stone Row
Carreg Wen Fawr Y Rugos Stone Row submitted by AngieLake : This view shows Stone 3, with its 'notch' from this angle, and the two long stones lying on the ground framing a view of the pyramid-like peak of Sugarloaf Mountain (to approx ENE), just showing above a convenient dip in the nearer mountain that seems to 'hold' it. (The peak is rather faint and misty here, I hope you can see it.) The previous three or four photos show the link to a line of wid...

Carreg Wen Fawr Y Rugos Stone Row
Carreg Wen Fawr Y Rugos Stone Row submitted by AngieLake : Stone 3 in the foreground, looking back uphill to where Sem is standing, on the route of a possible processional way which we initially thought may have led to the Stone Row. When we looked down the slope from this stone (3), though, we saw another possibility. (Next photo shows Stone 3 and its view towards two long stones that frame a view of the peak of Sugarloaf Mountain.) The first of the...

Carreg Wen Fawr Y Rugos Stone Row
Carreg Wen Fawr Y Rugos Stone Row submitted by AngieLake : Stone 2 in a possible route that leads to a pair of stones which frame a view to Sugarloaf Mountain. If you look back at the pic of Stone 1, you'll see how far apart they are. Initially, IIRC, we thought it might have been a route towards the stone row, but further downhill (in NE of area where stone row is situated), we had another idea! Here, you can see one of the men standing by Stone 3. ... (1 comment)

Carreg Wen Fawr Y Rugos Stone Row
Carreg Wen Fawr Y Rugos Stone Row submitted by AngieLake : This stone, at the NE of the area where the stone row is situated, is the same one in the first photo posted (at bottom of list on site page), showing a view across the plateau towards the row in the distance. Why Sem, Dr Peter Hodges, and I wondered if it was part of a ceremonial route will become obvious when you see this and the next three photos. These widely-spaced stones seemed to lead t...

Carreg Wen Fawr Y Rugos Stone Row
Carreg Wen Fawr Y Rugos Stone Row submitted by AngieLake : Taken with the stone row behind me, this shot shows my bag marking the position of a missing stone in the dowsed route leading uphill from NW towards the stone row. The largest stone shown in the two previous photos on the west side of the hill is just visible as a thin white line on the lower brow directly above the bag.

Carreg Wen Fawr Y Rugos Stone Row
Carreg Wen Fawr Y Rugos Stone Row submitted by AngieLake : Looking back downhill at the large stone at the top of the previous photo. These stones, and a missing one in line with them further uphill, formed a route leading NW/SE upslope towards the stone row.

Carreg Wen Fawr Y Rugos Stone Row
Carreg Wen Fawr Y Rugos Stone Row submitted by AngieLake : Looking uphill here, these large stones, which may have been significant, were on the west side of the slope and aligned approx NW with the row. In this shot Sem or Dr Peter can be seen just above largest stone, standing near the fallen longstone end of the row to right of the line of the row's long dry grasses. (The next pic will show this view looking back downhill).

Carreg Wen Fawr Y Rugos Stone Row
Carreg Wen Fawr Y Rugos Stone Row submitted by AngieLake : The tapered end of the fallen longstone, which lies approx NW/SE at right-angles to the stone row at its SW end. The row is behind me here. (Visited on 30 May 2008 with Sem and Dr Peter Hodges, who found the row and other stones.)

Carreg Wen Fawr Y Rugos Stone Row
Carreg Wen Fawr Y Rugos Stone Row submitted by AngieLake : This must have been the bottom end of the longstone which has apparently fallen with its tapering end pointing approx SE. Assuming it had once stood, the lower end is partially under the ground surface.

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