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| Submitted by | guile |
| Added | Jul 13 2010 |
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Description
These two stones are huge. The taller of the two clearly showing the notches for roof timbers when it was used as an 18th. century cottage gable end.
Perhaps it was a ‘Ty Un Nos’ - or house built overnight. According to ancient laws, if you could build a house between sunset and sunrise, with walls, roof and smoking chimney, you could claim the freehold.
As ever, there seems to be a storm brewing in the mountains.
Perhaps it was a ‘Ty Un Nos’ - or house built overnight. According to ancient laws, if you could build a house between sunset and sunrise, with walls, roof and smoking chimney, you could claim the freehold.
As ever, there seems to be a storm brewing in the mountains.
Posted Comments:
AngieLake (2010-07-14)
This is a lovely photo guile, and I remember how huge that stone was. Their shapes are unusual, and I'd compared them to an axe-head [left] and a sword blade [right], though the left one looks like the prow of a ship from another angle. It's a very scenic view back towards the Snowdon area too, which is one of the best features of the Anglesey sites in the area. Do you know if any drawings exist of the old cottage? That was interesting to hear about!
guile (2010-07-18)
Sadly I haven't seen one, but there is a drawing of Bryngwyn Cottage in the Reverend Skinner's book ''Ten Days Tour through Anglesey 1802''
In this drawing the taller stone is not a part of the cottage, however it does show the stone with no notches.
In this drawing the taller stone is not a part of the cottage, however it does show the stone with no notches.
guile (2010-07-22)
I have also seen a drawing by the hon. W.O. Stanley in his essay "The Amphitheatre of Castell in Anglesey" which was dated 1874 if I recall correctly, in that picture there is no cottage at all, but the tall stone has 3 notches.
AngieLake (2010-07-23)
Thanks for checking this out guile. So, if the artist in the Rev's book (or himself?) drew his sketch accurately, you can narrow down the date of the cottage... (assuming they put an extension on the cottage later, and damaged the tall stone at the same time?)
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