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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Penrhos-Feilw Alternative Name: Plas Meilw, Penrhos FeilwCountry: Wales County: Anglesey Type: Standing Stones
Nearest Town: Holyhead Nearest Village: Plas Meilw
Map Ref: SH22708094 Landranger Map Number: 114
Latitude: 53.295669N Longitude: 4.66178W
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 |
| 2 | co-ordinates of the nearest village |
| 1 | co-ordinates of the nearest town |
| 0 | no data |
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Chrus visited on 12th Jul 2023 - their rating: Cond: 4 Amb: 4 Access: 4
elad13 visited on 28th May 2023 - their rating: Cond: 4 Amb: 5 Access: 4
bishop_pam visited on 28th May 2019 - their rating: Cond: 5 Amb: 4 Access: 4
cactus_chris visited on 19th Jun 2018 - their rating: Cond: 4 Amb: 5 Access: 4
Woosywoo visited on 19th Feb 2018 - their rating: Cond: 4 Amb: 5 Access: 4 Lovely pair of stones. Thought to be Bronze Age. Cared for by CADW so you can look them up. Easy to find. Easy access. You pass Porth Dafarch with the beach on your left. Take the second proper road on your right (ignore the little track past a few white houses). Follow this up a short way - few hundred yards and there is a gate next to the farm, immediately before the farm on your left. You can walk through and straight to the stones, they seem to keep a few horses in there but they didn’t approach us and there were no scary cows or angry bulls to be seen. At least not today anyway. Well worth a visit and you can see Holyhead mountain as a backdrop. We walked from Porth Dafarch but you could drive up and park very close by.
SumDoood visited on 28th Jul 2015 - their rating: Cond: 4 Amb: 3 Access: 4 Thoughtless siting of power lines to north and south of the stones detract somewhat.
DJMace visited on 1st Jan 2015 - their rating: Cond: 5 Amb: 4 Access: 5 Very easy to access (approx 50 yds from the road behind a farmhouse) with fantastic 360 view.
dgoldst visited on 21st Jun 2014 - their rating: Cond: 4 Amb: 4 Access: 4 My wife and I were on a walking tour and these stones were part of it. Easy to get to. The site is directly behind a farm with a marked path and gate. It was bright and sunny and you could see a long ways in any direction. The stones are about 3-4 meters apart and 3 meters tall.
seveaye visited on 17th May 2011 - their rating: Cond: 3 Amb: 4 Anglesea is awesome for the history buff!
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rosbriagha visited on 1st Jan 2002 - their rating: Cond: 4 Amb: 5 Access: 4 These two standing stones are impressive enough just in themselves, but the view they frame, of Holy island, makes them even more remarkable! They seem to be a sort of gateway, a visual one anyway, for would-be visitors to this tiny sacred isle off the very edge of Anglesey. There arev often horses in the field, who are welcoming, and who often rub or lean against the stones. Well worth a visit!
shawid visited - their rating: Cond: 4 Amb: 4 Access: 4
Twistytwirly visited - their rating: Cond: 4 Amb: 4 Access: 4
Andy B visited #7 in our rundown of favourite standing stones (and pairs) in Britain
Penbron Jimwithnoname DrewParsons PAB rldixon nicoladidsbury AngieLake TimPrevett kelpie have visited here
Average ratings for this site from all visit loggers: Condition: 4.08 Ambience: 4.25 Access: 4.09
Access: Very easy, well signposted, just outside of Holyhead. The day we visited, we had thick sea fog, and everywhere around Holyhead was thickly veiled in grey, and visibility poor in places - so I had to keep my eyes looking out to see the stone, from the small lanes.
The stones: A signpost for these said "These stones may have been set up in the early bronze age 2000-1500 BC, since burials of that period have occassionally been found in association with large standing stones such as these." A friend, native of Holyhead, referred to these as 'the prehistoric goal posts'!
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