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<< Our Photo Pages >> Four Crosses - Burial Chamber or Dolmen in Wales in Gwynedd

Submitted by Teska on Wednesday, 29 December 2004  Page Views: 15914

Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Four Crosses Alternative Name: Y Ffor
Country: Wales County: Gwynedd Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Nearest Town: Pwllheli  Nearest Village: Y Ffor
Map Ref: SH3990638492
Latitude: 52.919918N  Longitude: 4.382692W
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
 4 Ambience:
5Superb
4Good
3Ordinary
2Not Good
1Awful
0No data.
 3 Access:
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
0No data.
 4 Accuracy:
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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bishop_pam visited on 5th Sep 2022 - their rating: Cond: 5 Amb: 4 Access: 3

BarringtonSteele visited on 10th Oct 2010 - their rating: Cond: 4 Amb: 3 Access: 4

Seasong visited on 1st Jul 2003 - their rating: Cond: 2 Amb: 4 Access: 4 Easy to find down the path and through open gates, not sure of the provenance, if it has been reconstructed in 1936 there must be some sort of record of this, I will try to Check with Gwynedd archives The views are lovely and it would be a strategic site here over bay

Seasong visited on 1st Jul 2003 - their rating: Cond: 2 Amb: 4 Access: 4 Easy to find down the path and through open gates, not sure of the provenance, if it has been reconstructed in 1936 there must be some sort of record of this, I will try to Check with Gwynedd archives The views are lovely and it would be a strategic site here over bay

DrewParsons have visited here

Average ratings for this site from all visit loggers: Condition: 3.25 Ambience: 3.75 Access: 3.75

Four Crosses
Four Crosses submitted by vagabondnma : Y Ffor to give it its Welsh name. But this is the 1936 reconstruction - in a bed of cement! I took this photo quickly as my wife shouted "The Horses are coming!" (Vote or comment on this photo)
Burial chamber in a small village called Four Crosses on land near a farm named Cromlech and standing stone that is only yards away.

It’s a nice little structure in its field of sheep, but there are lots of other big stones nearby, now incorporated into the field walls and gateposts. I expect there was a lot more here at one time. Turns out it is a 1936 reconstruction, concreted into the ground, and probably not very accurate.

Easily reachable down a lane and through two gates, though admittedly on private land. Also easily visible across the field from the car park of the new vet's surgery on the main road heading south.
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Four Crosses
Four Crosses submitted by Antonine : March 2024 (Vote or comment on this photo)

Four Crosses
Four Crosses submitted by Antonine : The settlement of Y Ffor (four crosses) dates to the Stone Age, but the village wasn’t established until the 19th century. The burial chamber is on private land near a farm named Cromlech. The chamber was reconstructed in 1936. Photo March 2024 (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Four Crosses submitted by Antonine : We only managed to get some photos from the car park at the vets on the A499. March 2024 (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Four Crosses submitted by Seasong : July evening (Vote or comment on this photo)

Four crosses standing stone
Four crosses standing stone submitted by DavidHoyle : Distant view - the right of way seems to have disappeared after some recent building. (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Four Crosses submitted by Postman : Who put it back together? Stevie Wonder?

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Four Crosses submitted by Postman : Big stones going spare.

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Four Crosses submitted by Postman : (2 comments)

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Four Crosses submitted by Postman : Innards

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Four Crosses submitted by Postman : It must have been obvious something was wrong here.

Four Crosses
Four Crosses submitted by Postman : Here be dragons, small scared fluffy white dragons. (1 comment)

Four crosses standing stone
Four crosses standing stone submitted by Bladup : Four crosses standing stone.

Four crosses standing stone
Four crosses standing stone submitted by Bladup

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Four Crosses submitted by Bladup : Four Crosses burial chamber.

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Four Crosses submitted by Bladup : The wrongly rebuilt Four Crosses burial chamber.

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Four Crosses submitted by Bladup : Four Crosses burial chamber.

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Four Crosses submitted by Bladup

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Four Crosses submitted by rogerkread : Y Ffor on a misty moisty morning. Easily reachable down a lane and through two gates, though admittedly on private land. Also easily visible across the field from the car park of the new vet's surgery on the main road heading south.

Four crosses standing stone
Four crosses standing stone submitted by Postman : A long view down to the sea

Four crosses standing stone
Four crosses standing stone submitted by Postman : Pointing nicely to the local mother hill Mynydd Carngwch.

Four crosses standing stone
Four crosses standing stone submitted by Postman : A view to some of the Lleyn hills.

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Four Crosses submitted by DrewParsons : It is a pleasant dolmen set in the farm field with friendly cattle. September 2010.

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Four Crosses submitted by DrewParsons : There is a trail of stones behind the site which may be connected to it. September 2010.

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Four Crosses submitted by DrewParsons : Inside the chamber you can see where a concrete base has been laid to tastefully restore and preserve the site. September 2010.

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Re: Four Crosses by davidmorgan on Tuesday, 09 October 2012
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Re: Four Crosses by DrewParsons on Friday, 29 October 2010
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I visited this site in late September 2010. As I arrived at the drive to the farm a lady from the farm was luckily right there and gave me permission to visit the site which is on private land.
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Re: Four Crosses by coldrum on Monday, 11 January 2010
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Coflein entry.

http://www.coflein.gov.uk/en/site/93553/details/CROMLECH+%28FARM%29%2C+BURIAL+CHAMBER/
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Re: Four Crosses by FilthyTheDog on Wednesday, 16 July 2008
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Visited this site in early July 2008.
Sadly it is pretty much inaccessible now. The paths marked on the OS map are fenced over and have vanished and the chamber itself, when we were there at least, was surrounded by fence posts and farm equipment. It took much jumping of fences and hence ripping of coats to get there. A great shame, for in spite of the concrete (only visible inside the chamber when we were there) it's still fairly impressive. A real pity that our ancestors monuments aren't preserved and cared for more and kept easy to visit for those of us who care about these things.
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Re: Four Crosses by vagabondnma on Friday, 08 April 2005
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Though there is no official access to this site (its in a farmers' field) we were happy to see there were no bulls in the field. The public footpath in the neighbouring field is none existent (typical of the Welsh farmers I have encountered!) so I felt no remorse about 'tresspassing'. But then the horses in the next field came through an open gate! They were big but friendly. Still, I snapped quickly as my wife ran off. Shame as I'd have liked to have gone inside. Thing was, according to James Dyer 'Penguin guide to Prehistoric England and Wales' and Michael Senior 'Standing Stones of north western Wales' re-erected in 1936. Senior adds that it had largely collapsed in the 19th Century AND that "Old reports suggest that this cromlech was part of a prehistoric complex of stone avenues and standing stones, now lost".
See my other piccies of nearby standing stone(s)!
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