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Unless otherwise stated, this image is the copyright of the submitter. Contact them for permission to reproduce it. |  | | Description | The smooth, cylindrical shape of Maen Twrog. This stone, not from the locality, was reputed to have been thrown from a nearby mountainside by the giant St Twrog, smashing a Pagan altar upon landing. His hand prints are supposed to be the indentations upon the top of the stone Ancient yews are in this churchyard, and the church, instead of having the usual church bells, has Tubular Bells. The Church of Tubular Bells, AND a megalith. Now, that's somewhere I could worship! |
| Posted Comments: Thorgrim
(2005-09-24) | Strange! That stone cannot be natural and has to have been worked. Any ideas? Doesn't look much like a cross shaft. What does Maen Twrog mean? | TimPrevett
(2005-09-24) | Maen Twrog means the Stone of St Twrog, and the stone gives the name to the village. We reckoned it to have been a glacial erractic, hence its smoothness. Not a cross shaft at all. The site must be (assumedly) pre-Christian in origin, so this stone will have been there for some time. | Thorgrim
(2005-09-24) | Hmm - well the name doesn't help. Glacial erratic? Well that may be its origin, but I feel certain that its not a natural shape. Surely its been worked on. Any sign of tooling? | TimPrevett
(2005-09-24) | No signs of working; only surface marks are those claimed to have come from Twrog who lobbed it to smash the Pagan altar. I did take pics of those, but do not show the marks very clearly. |
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