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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Llyn Tan Y Graig CairnCountry: Wales County: Gwynedd Type: Cairn
Nearest Town: Dolgellau Nearest Village: Llanelltyd
Map Ref: SH708202
Latitude: 52.763902N Longitude: 3.916237W
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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One of two cairns in the area that are difficult to get to. Within a conifer forest that's very overgrown. Positioned on a terrace on a S facing steep hillside this is an interesting site. The cairn is overgrown with moss and punctuated by conifers whose trunks have shifted the larger stones, and whose roots have grown over the underlying stones. I have surveyed the site to determine where the stones lie and it appears that the central area is raised to about 0.8m. The site is not circular (if indeed it ever was) it appears more like an avenue leading to the central raised area from the E and W and measuring about 6m from both directions, i.e. 12m in length? Taking pics was difficult due to the trees and the humidity corrupted several shots taken with my tablet.
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