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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Gorsedd BranCountry: Wales
NOTE: This site is 0.132 km away from the location you searched for.
County: Denbighshire Type: Barrow Cemetery
Nearest Town: Denbigh Nearest Village: Nantglyn
Map Ref: SH968597
Latitude: 53.124447N Longitude: 3.543664W
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 |
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On my first trip up here I was looking for the eastern pair, couldn't find them, so this time I concentrated on the very highest pair of barrows, the trig point being on top of one of them I thought it would be easy to find, it wasn't.
After locating the top, I barged into the trees, then after many scratches and scrapes I came out into the clearing and there it was. It is not easy to find. The barrow is in good condition apart from the trig point on its top. The other neighbouring barrow has a clearing of its own too but its either gone or so slight as to disappear under the copious covering of heather and mosses.
This would be such a good place if not for the blasted forestry commission, even if they all came down tomorrow it would still be ruined, I've seen the devastation the felling can cause, so this is as good as it gets, in this lifetime.
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