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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Esgair Garn Alternative Name: Esgair Garn Cairn, Llanddewi Abergwesyn
Country: Wales County: Powys Type: Cairn

Map Ref: SN83084983
Latitude: 52.134361N Longitude: 3.709665W
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

3 Ambience:

5	Superb
4	Good
3	Ordinary
2	Not Good
1	Awful
0	No data.

4 Access:

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.

2 Accuracy:

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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**Esgair Garn** submitted by pjk7009 : Esgair Garn and its modern hat. (Vote or comment on this photo)

A low mound of stones with a peculiar top hat. The majority of the stones forming the cairn appear to have originally been selected for their varying quartz content.

An obvious outcrop of this material was not observed in the immediate area around the cairn (OS 1977)
Source: O.S. Card SN 84 NW 3.
Helen Whitear and Duncan Schlee, Dyfed Archaeological Trust, January 2008

Coflein; On the west end of Esgair Garn 465 m above O.D. on the crest of a moorland spur is a circular stone-built cairn, which includes blocks of quartz. It is 15.9 m in diameter and 0.9 m high at the center, where a modern cairn adds 0.6 m of height.
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Nearby Images from Geograph Britain and Ireland:

SN8349 : Esgair Garn: ancient cairn by Rob Woodall — by Rob Woodall
©2008(licence)

SN8349 : Hillside cairn. by John Horner — by John Horner
©2009(licence)

SN8349 : Gullies above Nant Ddwfn by Rob Woodall — by Rob Woodall
©2008(licence)

SN8250 : Gully into Nant Gwrach, Powys by Roger D Kidd — by Roger D Kidd
©2009(licence)

SN8250 : Cwm Gwrach, Powys by Roger D Kidd — by Roger D Kidd
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