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Mynydd y Betws
Date Added: 4th Apr 2012
Site Type: Stone Row / Alignment
Country: Wales (Carmarthenshire)
Visited: Yes on 4th Feb 2012
Mynydd y Betws submitted by SandyG on 4th Feb 2012. Located on common land to the east of Ammanford in Carmarthenshire, Mynydd y Betws Wind Farm was granted planning consent in 2009.
The wind farm will consist of 15 turbines with a tip height of 110 meters and an installed capacity of up to 45MW.
Image copyright Cambrian Renewable Energy Limited
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Castell Goetre
Trip No.2 Entry No.1 Date Added: 17th Jan 2011
Site Type: Hillfort
Country: Wales (Ceredigion)
Visited: Yes on 12th Oct 2010
Castell Goetre submitted by Andy B on 12th Oct 2010. Castell Goetre (Possibly from Goed-Tref or 'settlement in the wood') is an Iron Age hill fort on the ridgeway between the Teifi and Dulas valleys. It is located in the northwest of this square and extends into SN6051 to the north.
The fort, now populated by sheep and home to a small reservoir, consists of an oval banked and ditched enclosure with a cross-bank through the centre, possibly part of an earlier phase. From ground level it appears much eroded but in places is still well defined, as ...
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Castell Allt-Goch
Trip No.2 Entry No.2 Date Added: 17th Jan 2011
Site Type: Hillfort
Country: Wales (Ceredigion)
Visited: Yes on 12th Oct 2010
Castell Allt-Goch submitted by Andy B on 12th Oct 2010. This Iron Age hill fort occupies high ground in the south-west of the square and is used as pasture for sheep. A more detailed description is included at
http://www.cambria.org.uk/projects/prehistdefenc/SN54AND55GAZETTEER.pdf
Copyright Dan Gregory and licensed for reuse under the Creative Commons Licence.
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Stone near Castell Gwynionydd
Date Added: 12th Jul 2023
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: Wales (Ceredigion)
Visited: Would like to visit
Stone near Castell Gwynionydd submitted by dodomad on 12th Jul 2023. Standing stone next to Castell Gwynionydd, in the Teifi valley NE of Llandysul, Ceredigion. Requires a bit of freelancing to reach. Also close to the iron age hillfort of Pencoed-y-foel.
Contributed by MattM (@MattM51422844 on Twitter)
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Great Orme Mine
Trip No.7 Entry No.3 Date Added: 7th Apr 2011
Site Type: Ancient Mine, Quarry or other Industry
Country: Wales (Conwy)
Visited: Would like to visit
Great Orme Mine submitted by stu on 14th Oct 2002. O.S sheet 17 772831.
The Great Orme Mine. A prehistoric copper mine. Well worth a look around,
nice bronze age artefacts in the entrance to the mine.
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Log Text: Neil Oliver goes down some tight squeezes in the prehistoric Great Orme Copper mine in Episode One of a History of Celtic Britain
Coed Clwyd Cairns
Date Added: 17th Sep 2010
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: Wales (Denbighshire)
Visited: Yes on 13th Feb 2010
Coed Clwyd Cairns submitted by Andy B on 13th Feb 2010. Moel y Gaer - 4,000 year old Bronze Age burial chamber. Derek Brockway, BBC Wales weatherman with archaeologist Erin Robinson from the Heather and Hillforts project. Copyright BBC Wales, more on the Foel Fenlli page.
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Careg-Y-Caws
Date Added: 28th Dec 2010
Site Type: Cairn
Country: Wales (Denbighshire)
Visited: Yes on 12th Oct 2010
Careg-Y-Caws submitted by Andy B on 12th Oct 2010. Stone cairn at Pen Bwlch Llandrillo
Looking back up to the Bwerwyn ridge.
Copyright Jeremy Bolwell and licensed for reuse under the Creative Commons Licence.
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Moel Arthur
Date Added: 4th Apr 2012
Site Type: Hillfort
Country: Wales (Denbighshire)
Visited: Yes on 3rd Jul 2011
Moel Arthur submitted by Andy B on 3rd Jul 2011. Moel Arthur
Summit of Moel Arthur at 1480 ft, in the Clwydian ranges
Copyright Dot Potter and licensed for reuse under this Creative Commons Licence.
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Moel-y-Gaer (Bodfari)
Date Added: 4th Apr 2012
Site Type: Hillfort
Country: Wales (Denbighshire)
Visited: Yes on 30th Aug 2011
Moel-y-Gaer (Bodfari) submitted by Andy B on 30th Aug 2011. Offa's Dyke Path approaching Coed Moel-y-Gaer
Copyright Tim Heaton and licensed for reuse under the Creative Commons Licence.
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Moel-y-Gaer (Loggerheads)
Date Added: 11th Jan 2013
Site Type: Hillfort
Country: Wales (Denbighshire)
Visited: Yes on 23rd Oct 2012
Moel-y-Gaer (Loggerheads) submitted by Andy B on 23rd Oct 2012. A piece of vitrified material / flow slag, dimensions c. 15X10x10 cm.
It looks likely that this material was brought to the hillfort as part of a 'founding' event in the building of the ramparts.
Image credit: Bangor University
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Tre'r Ceiri
Trip No.7 Entry No.6 Date Added: 7th Apr 2011
Site Type: Hillfort
Country: Wales (Gwynedd)
Visited: Would like to visit
Tre'r Ceiri submitted by Billythefish on 3rd Apr 2005. Inside the fort are around 150 hut circles. Here is a group near the main northern entrance, showing the northern rampart wall in the distance.
I loved the atmosphere with the mist swirling about me. I was completely alone, except for the sound of the wind through the stones.
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Log Text: Early Iron Age hillfort visited by Neil Oliver in BBC's History of Ancient Britain
Meillionydd double ringwork
Date Added: 4th Apr 2012
Site Type: Hillfort
Country: Wales (Gwynedd)
Visited: Yes on 6th Dec 2011
Meillionydd double ringwork submitted by Andy B on 6th Dec 2011. Meillionydd dig, 2011
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Bryn Cader Faner
Trip No.10 Entry No.10 Date Added: 4th Jun 2016
Site Type: Ring Cairn
Country: Wales (Gwynedd)
Visited: Would like to visit
Bryn Cader Faner submitted by Bladup on 10th Oct 2014. Bryn Cader Faner.
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Carreg y Big (Arthog)
Trip No.20 Entry No.3 Date Added: 24th Feb 2024
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: Wales (Gwynedd)
Visited: Yes
Carreg y Big (Arthog) submitted by Ogham on 20th Mar 2018. A lonely place in the winter.
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Log Text: #13 in our rundown of favourite standing stones (and pairs) in Britain
Druidstone (Michaelstone)
Date Added: 4th Apr 2012
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: Wales (Monmouthshire)
Visited: Yes on 23rd Jan 2011
Druidstone (Michaelstone) submitted by Andy B on 23rd Jan 2011. Photo from Maillard: The stone is in the grounds of Druidstone house. We parked in the car park by the main house. The stone can be found through a gate, with a sign saying private track & mentioning St Bernards loose, (we didn't see any!) It is beside the first cottage under some trees, & is a large female lozenge stone.
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Great House Camp
Date Added: 4th Apr 2012
Site Type: Hillfort
Country: Wales (Monmouthshire)
Visited: Yes on 3rd Feb 2011
Great House Camp submitted by Andy B on 3rd Feb 2011. Hill fort topped with trees.
Copyright Jonathan Billinger and licensed for reuse under the Creative Commons Licence
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Coed y Caerau
Date Added: 11th Jan 2013
Site Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Country: Wales (Monmouthshire)
Visited: Yes on 15th Oct 2010
Coed y Caerau submitted by Creative Commons on 15th Oct 2010. Part of the ramparts of a hill fort designed to protect lives and property in less settled times. This area is now largely ungrazed and there is a light covering of ash, oak and hazel.
Copyright Marion Phillips and licensed for reuse under the Creative Commons Licence.
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Carn Meini
Trip No.5 Entry No.8 Date Added: 23rd Feb 2011
Site Type: Ancient Mine, Quarry or other Industry
Country: Wales (Pembrokeshire)
Visited: Would like to visit
Carn Meini submitted by vicky on 7th Jun 2004. The Bluestones outcrop of Carn Meini as viewed from the top.
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Log Text: The outcrops of rock that are the most likely source of the Stonehenge bluestones, featured in Episode Three of BBC's History of Ancient Britain
Triangle of stones near Llanddewi Velfrey
Date Added: 4th Apr 2012
Site Type: Modern Stone Circle etc
Country: Wales (Pembrokeshire)
Visited: Yes on 23rd Jan 2011
Triangle of stones near Llanddewi Velfrey submitted by Andy B on 23rd Jan 2011. The stones are arranged roughly in a triangular setting, with one outlier to the west, just on the other side of a footpath.
Photo by Martin Ringer
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Cerrig-Y-Derwyddon
Date Added: 4th Apr 2012
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: Wales (Pembrokeshire)
Visited: Yes on 21st May 2011
Cerrig-Y-Derwyddon submitted by Andy B on 21st May 2011. Cerrig-y-Derwyddion Standing Stone, Eglwyswrw, NPRN: 304049
Oil Painting by J.C. Young
Copyright J.C. Young / RCAHMW
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