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Maen Melyn (Lleyn)
Date Added: 19th Aug 2024
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: Wales (Gwynedd)
Visited: Yes on 18th Aug 2024. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 4 Access 3
Maen Melyn (Lleyn) submitted by pab on 7th Oct 2007. Maen Melyn.
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Log Text: Great viewpoint, dubious as to whether this is a standing stone of any variety or more likely something that has moved due to erosion?
Cilgerran Churchyard
Date Added: 19th Aug 2024
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: Wales (Pembrokeshire)
Visited: Yes on 13th Jul 2024. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 2 Access 4
Cilgerran Churchyard submitted by vicky on 4th Apr 2002. Cilgerran Churchyard (SN191431) – one of several standing stones located in churchyards in this part of SW Wales. The stone can be hard to find amongst the similarly grey tombstones and exhibits lettering on one face and crude cross symbols of two other faces. Our research pixie is looking in to this stone further.
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Log Text: I haven't seen many stones with Ogham and Latin inscriptions, both being quite legible on this particular example. Keen to see more a I know there are quite a few in this area of Wales.
Long Meg And Her Daughters
Date Added: 19th Aug 2024
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: England (Cumbria)
Visited: Yes on 12th Aug 2024. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 3 Access 4
Long Meg And Her Daughters submitted by Iain_P on 12th Aug 2017. Another. It was the only sun we saw all week!
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Log Text: Has been on my list of sites to visit for some time, but always a bit far from my where I am in Cumbria or the Dales. What a great stone, complete with cup and ring marks (a first for me on anything other than exposed bedrock or stone repurposed in drystone walls). Standing stone (as a single object) feels well placed to cast a shadow across the landscape, but the subsequent stone circle seems quite odd as it flows down hill. An archaeologist friend of mine was lucky enough to be on a dig here in late 2022!
Long Meg
Date Added: 19th Aug 2024
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: England (Cumbria)
Visited: Yes on 12th Aug 2024. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 4
Long Meg submitted by JanF on 22nd Jun 2010. Long Meg (and her daughters) Stone Circle, Cumbria UK, is a magical place.. I watched the sunset on this special day in memory of my loved one.. Many others were here with me.. Complete strangers, but yet close friends..
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Log Text: Has been on my list of sites to visit for some time, but always a bit far from my where I am in Cumbria or the Dales. What a great stone, complete with cup and ring marks (a first for me on anything other than exposed bedrock or stone repurposed in drystone walls). Standing stone (as a single object) feels well placed to cast a shadow across the landscape, but the subsequent stone circle seems quite odd as it flows down hill. An archaeologist friend of mine was lucky enough to be on a dig here in late 2022!
Mayburgh
Date Added: 19th Aug 2024
Site Type: Henge
Country: England (Cumbria)
Visited: Yes on 12th Aug 2024. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 4
Mayburgh submitted by wildtalents on 15th May 2024. The henge banks at Mayburgh were built up mainly using cobbles like those surrounding the one remaining megalith at the site. It's a really large structure and may have been a meeting point for many hundreds of people at a time. These days mainly sheep throng the henge. Image from spring 2023.
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Log Text: Finally managed to visit after a number of visits called off due to poor weather. Incredible scale, especially considering it being built from cobbles taken from the river. Was once told it is made up of three colours of rock, from three different sources?
Castlerigg
Date Added: 19th Aug 2024
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: England (Cumbria)
Visited: Yes on 13th Aug 2024. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 5 Access 4
Castlerigg submitted by Pressure on 9th Nov 2022. Castlerigg October 22
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Log Text: Second visit, very busy with summer tourists (compared to previous visit with no one else at all!)
Mynydd Cefn Amlwch
Date Added: 19th Aug 2024
Site Type: Chambered Tomb
Country: Wales (Gwynedd)
Visited: Yes on 15th Aug 2024. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 4
Mynydd Cefn Amlwch submitted by pab on 16th Oct 2007. On a wonderfully clear day in October, looking north east up the Lleyn Peninsula.
The location is noted on COFLEIN as also being known as Coetan Arthur, their ref being NPRN: 93509, at GR SH22973456.
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Log Text: Took my old man to visit his first ancient site. Moon rising from behind the trees and a cloudless sky made for a beautiful evening visit.
Mynydd Rhiw South
Date Added: 5th Apr 2024
Site Type: Cairn
Country: Wales (Gwynedd)
Visited: Yes on 24th Mar 2024. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 5 Access 2
Mynydd Rhiw South submitted by DrewParsons on 29th Oct 2010. PID photo
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Mynydd Rhiw Cairn 1
Date Added: 5th Apr 2024
Site Type: Cairn
Country: Wales (Gwynedd)
Visited: Yes on 24th Mar 2024. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 5 Access 2
Mynydd Rhiw Cairn 1 submitted by DrewParsons on 29th Oct 2010. PID photo
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Mynydd Rhiw Cairn 2
Date Added: 5th Apr 2024
Site Type: Cairn
Country: Wales (Gwynedd)
Visited: Yes on 24th Mar 2024. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 5 Access 2
Mynydd Rhiw Cairn 2 submitted by DrewParsons on 29th Oct 2010. PID photo
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Mynydd Rhiw Cairn 3
Date Added: 5th Apr 2024
Site Type: Cairn
Country: Wales (Gwynedd)
Visited: Yes on 24th Mar 2024. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 5 Access 2
Mynydd Rhiw Cairn 3 submitted by DrewParsons on 29th Oct 2010. Cairn 3 the northernmost cairn of four in a line. Photographed in late September 2010. The mist eventually cleared and there was a grand view from this cairn and its sister cairns.
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Mynydd Rhiw Neolithic axe factory
Date Added: 5th Apr 2024
Site Type: Ancient Mine, Quarry or other Industry
Country: Wales (Gwynedd)
Visited: Yes on 24th Mar 2024. My rating: Condition 1 Ambience 4 Access 3
Mynydd Rhiw Neolithic axe factory submitted by pab on 8th Feb 2009. Neolithic axe factory on Mynydd Rhiw, Lleyn Peninsular. The disturbed ground is from the 2007 excavations referred to elsewhere in these postings - having left it till now to post, I assume they will no longer show on the ground.
The picture is taken looking north-east, so both Caernarfon Bay and Cardigan Bay can be seen - with Yr Eifi and its magnificent iron age settlement visible on the skyline leading towards Snowdonia.
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Bronheulog
Date Added: 5th Apr 2024
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: Wales (Gwynedd)
Visited: Yes on 24th Mar 2024. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 3 Access 4
Bronheulog submitted by Postman on 7th Oct 2012. Broken capstone, broken burial chamber.
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Tan-Y-Muriau
Date Added: 5th Apr 2024
Site Type: Chambered Cairn
Country: Wales (Gwynedd)
Visited: Yes on 24th Mar 2024. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 4
Tan-y-Muriau submitted by Sunny100 on 19th Jun 2010. Tan-y-Muriau Chambered Cairn in Gwynedd, at SH.238288. [A bigger picture].
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Bachwen
Date Added: 5th Apr 2024
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: Wales (Gwynedd)
Visited: Yes on 24th Mar 2024. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 3
Bachwen submitted by AngieLake on 24th Jul 2006. The lovely dolmen near Clynnog Fawr seems to echo the shapes of the surrounding hills. After a dull afternoon the sun broke through about 6.30pm on 13 June 2006.
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Nant Gwrtheyrn sculptured stones
Date Added: 5th Apr 2024
Site Type: Modern Stone Circle etc
Country: Wales (Gwynedd)
Visited: Yes on 24th Mar 2024. My rating: Condition 5 Ambience 4 Access 5
Nant Gwrtheyrn sculptured stones submitted by bishop_pam on 6th Sep 2022. Modern monument of three sculptured stones framing a poem in Welsh
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Yr Eifl cairns
Date Added: 5th Apr 2024
Site Type: Cairn
Country: Wales (Gwynedd)
Visited: Yes on 24th Mar 2024. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 5 Access 1
Yr Eifl cairns submitted by h_fenton on 15th Mar 2011. Yr Eifl cairns (564metres above sea level) viewed from roughly east.
Cairn 1 is on the right side of the photo, the OS trig point here is built of stone so it is difficult to see. just below the cairn is a small patch of yellow. this is the backpack of a mountainbiker who is sitting on the ground out of the wind, if you look very closely just to the left you can see his mountain bike for scale.
Cairn 2 is to the left of cairn 1 , but is difficult to see.
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Carnedd Tre'r Ceiri
Date Added: 5th Apr 2024
Site Type: Cairn
Country: Wales (Gwynedd)
Visited: Yes on 24th Mar 2024. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 5 Access 1
Carnedd Tre'r Ceiri submitted by h_fenton on 23rd Feb 2011. Cairn on the summit of Tre'r Ceiri hillfort.
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30 May 2010
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Tre'r Ceiri
Date Added: 5th Apr 2024
Site Type: Hillfort
Country: Wales (Gwynedd)
Visited: Yes on 24th Mar 2024. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 5 Access 1
Tre'r Ceiri submitted by TAlanJones on 23rd Dec 2023. Tre'r Ceiri
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Carnedd Llewelyn
Date Added: 5th Apr 2024
Site Type: Cairn
Country: Wales (Conwy)
Visited: Yes on 26th Mar 2024. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 5 Access 1
Carnedd Llewelyn submitted by Postman on 10th Oct 2012. The dark bulk of Carnedd Dafydd beyond and the rest of Snowdonia beyond that.
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