Corwen and Dee Valley Archaeological Society write:
One of our favourite places ,high above the beautiful landscape of the Dee Valley is the stone Circle Moel Ty Uchaf. Meet at Hendwr Bridge at 11.30 . Suitable footwear and outdoor clothing is essential.
OS reference :SJ 05613717. The circle consists of 41 surviving stones and is around 12 meters across.
Moel Ty Uchaf is thought to date to the Bronze Age . It is presumed that the monument was the focus for significant ceremonial and ritual activity . Lack of evidence from any excavations on the monument hamper further analysis , however the surrounding landscape reveals possible funerary monuments in the form of at least two cairns and at least four possible cists. A platform is clearly identifiable down slope south of the stone circle
The raised , circular platform cairn identifiable as belonging to the Bronze Age . It is around 16 metres in diameter and may have once consisted of a ring bank of stone with a surrounding kerb . At some point the centre of the cairn was filled with stones to form a level platform . These monuments are thought to be ceremonial/ritual and sometimes funerary monuments . In other areas excavations have revealed cremations have been placed within the circles and then covered by the platforms at sometime in the history of the monument .
CPAT have produced a detailed walk around the area which takes in most of the sites which we will be visiting in the future .Details can be found at this link (PDF)
http://www.cpat.org.uk/walks/moeltyuchaf.pdf
More at
https://corwenanddeevalleyarchaeologicalsociety.wordpress.com/2014/11/20/winter-solstice-walk-moel-ty-uchaf-stone-circle-sunday-21-december/
With thanks to Coldrum for the link
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