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Bryn Gwyn Stones
Date Added: 11th Jun 2025
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: Wales (Anglesey)
Visited: Yes on 7th Jun 2025. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 3
Bryn Gwyn Stones submitted by petelovespurple on 24th Apr 2012. I'd been to see Castell Bryn Gwyn, noticed the stones marked on the map, when I got there discovered there was a dig going on, they had found the base of one of the destroyed stones plus stone holes for other stones, I'd have thought there would be more info here......
more photos in a set of the same name on my Flickr photostream
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Log Text: i nearly missed these after visiting the henge, they are almost entirely hidden by the high hedge now. quite gobsmackingly large. two very different stones and types. one is thin slate like, the other is thick chunky.
Bwlch y Ddeufaen S
Date Added: 6th Jun 2025
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: Wales (Conwy)
Visited: Yes on 6th Jun 2025. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 4
Bwlch y Ddeufaen S submitted by Supersequin on 15th Mar 2025. This is the stone to the left of the path as you travel from Rowen.
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Log Text: a very stately monolith about 8 foot high
Barclodiad-y-Gawres (Conwy)
Date Added: 6th Jun 2025
Site Type: Cairn
Country: Wales (Conwy)
Visited: Yes on 6th Jun 2025. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 3 Access 4
Barclodiad-y-Gawres (Conwy) submitted by stu on 16th Oct 2002. Near the path by the Bwlch-y-Ddeufaen stones, is this large cairn. The long grass in the right of the photo has the remaining stones of the chamber.
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Log Text: None
Maen y bardd
Date Added: 6th Jun 2025
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: Wales (Conwy)
Visited: Yes on 6th Jun 2025. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 5 Access 2
Maen y bardd submitted by Postman on 26th Jul 2015. Autumn equinox 2007
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Log Text: a chamber directed SE over the valley. massive capstone and a large rear stone. it is incorporated into a modern era wall, which has taken a lot of the stone from the original tomb probably
Caerhun Chambered Tomb
Date Added: 6th Jun 2025
Site Type: Chambered Tomb
Country: Wales (Conwy)
Visited: Yes on 6th Jun 2025. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 5 Access 2
Caerhun Chambered Tomb submitted by TimPrevett on 30th Jul 2004. The view west - notice the curve of stones in front of the chamber; Maen y Bardd visible to the far left.
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Log Text: a chambered tomb, open to the NE. large capstone and supports, with one area without an upright has drystone wall instead. to the rear of the capstone is another large stone-looks like a collapsed capstone half in the ground. so i'm thinking this has two chambers.
Siambr Gladdu Caer Bach
Date Added: 6th Jun 2025
Site Type: Chambered Tomb
Country: Wales (Conwy)
Visited: Yes on 6th Jun 2025. My rating: Ambience 4 Access 2
Siambr Gladdu Caer Bach submitted by SteCymru14 on 13th Aug 2019. Edrych tuag at y safle. Fel y dywedais yn y disgrifiad, mae’r maen capan yn enfawr (wrth gymharu â safleoedd eraill tebyg yn yr ardal hon) ac mae’r pridd naturiol yn dal i’w weld yn ei le gwreiddiol.
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Log Text: hard to discern if this is natural or man made or a bit of both. its a very small 'chamber'
Caer Bach
Date Added: 6th Jun 2025
Site Type: Hillfort
Country: Wales (Conwy)
Visited: Yes on 6th Jun 2025. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 2
Caer Bach submitted by TimPrevett on 22nd Aug 2004. A view down on to Caer Bach, showing its prominent place above the Conwy Valley.
This is taken ascending Tal y Fan mountain.
There is a conspicuously white stone just left of centre; this stone is very large, and of different character than the other stones.
In the valley below within the picture (but not visible) is the Roman port and fort of Canovium - an essential link in their North Wales strongholds.
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Log Text: middling sized hill camp. steep hill to SE with bank and ditch uphill to the NW. the entrance seems to be from the south, curving into a flat area in the SE separate from the main camp. at the top can be seen large rounded boulders of the inner ramparts. it commands extensive views over the Conwy river.
Cae Coch
Date Added: 6th Jun 2025
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: Wales (Conwy)
Visited: Yes on 6th Jun 2025. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 2
Cae Coch submitted by TimPrevett on 9th Apr 2004. A composite of the spectacular back drop to the south west of Cae Coch standing stone, a short walk from the Rowen Youth Hostel, along with numerous other ancient monuments.
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Log Text: another grand cefn coch southside stone orientated north south
Druids Circle (Penmaenmawr)
Date Added: 6th Jun 2025
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: Wales (Conwy)
Visited: Yes on 5th Jun 2025. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 5 Access 2
Druids Circle (Penmaenmawr) submitted by nigeynoo on 24th Apr 2018. The magical Druids Circle taken at night with the Milky Way, Mars, Saturn and Jupiter
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Log Text: A lovely banked stone ring, near another smaller one and a stone 'something'. great views over to Orme head.
Monument 280
Date Added: 6th Jun 2025
Site Type: Ring Cairn
Country: Wales (Conwy)
Visited: Yes on 5th Jun 2025. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 4 Access 2
Monument 280 submitted by nigeynoo on 21st May 2018. Monument 280 taken May 20 on a very peaceful afternoon
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Log Text: a clump of rounded stones. not quite sure what this is, but it looks related to the two banked rings
Cefn Coch (Penmaenmawr)
Date Added: 6th Jun 2025
Site Type: Ring Cairn
Country: Wales (Conwy)
Visited: Yes on 5th Jun 2025. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 2
Cefn Coch (Penmaenmawr) submitted by LivingRocks on 26th Apr 2005. Cefn Coch as seen when coming over the ridge from Monument 280.
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Log Text: not as grand as its larger neighbour, but a good example nonetheless
Red Farm
Date Added: 6th Jun 2025
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: Wales (Conwy)
Visited: Yes on 5th Jun 2025. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 3 Access 3
Red Farm submitted by postman on 24th Nov 2012. Looking over the remnants of Red Farm stone circle to Maen Crwn
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Log Text: didn't look much from the track, but closer it was more convincing. on a small level plateau which is common site
Maen Crwn
Date Added: 6th Jun 2025
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: Wales (Conwy)
Visited: Yes on 5th Jun 2025. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 2
Maen Crwn submitted by stu on 16th Oct 2002. Nice standing stone in field outside Red Farm.
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Log Text: another stone orientated north south
Lletty'r Filiast
Date Added: 5th Jun 2025
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: Wales (Conwy)
Visited: Yes on 4th Jun 2025. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 4 Access 4
Lletty'r Filiast submitted by stu on 14th Oct 2002. Near to the Grt Orme Mine, at the end of Cromlech Road.
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Log Text: the stone cromlech sits at the SE end of a large oval mound about 50m long. the monument is the whole thing, not just the stones at the end
Great Orme Mine
Date Added: 5th Jun 2025
Site Type: Ancient Mine, Quarry or other Industry
Country: Wales (Conwy)
Visited: Yes on 4th Jun 2025. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 5 Access 4
Great Orme Mine submitted by raythemapman on 16th Apr 2009. Site in Conwy (Bwrdeistref Sirol) Wales: Side passage with Malachite Ore in the rock. 10/04/09
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Log Text: a great way to see how people mined copper in the Bronze age. they used fire to break the rock, and must have been expert at ventilation. they also smelted it on site.
Caer Caradoc (Chapel Lawn)
Date Added: 12th May 2025
Site Type: Hillfort
Country: England (Shropshire)
Visited: Yes on 11th May 2025. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 5 Access 2
Caer Caradoc (Chapel Lawn) submitted by camperman on 31st Aug 2022. An aerial view from the North.
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Log Text: not far to walk from Chapel lawn, but steep. the ditches/ramparts are deep and high and in very good condition. a bit of wow factor. the entrances are well preserved. a sloping site enclosure. well worth the climb
Mitchell's Fold
Date Added: 12th May 2025
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: England (Shropshire)
Visited: Yes on 10th May 2025. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 4
Mitchell's Fold submitted by Orpbit on 21st Mar 2025. The Lion Roared at Mitchell's Fold stone circle on the Equinox and I roared back. After 14 years of researching the site I finally got the one image I really wanted. Almost perfect weather, yet I was the only one there to observe sunrise on this Spring Equinox of 2025, except for a local couple doing a morning walk, who caught up with me walking down the track back to my car. Pity we didn't bump into each other before the sunrise, as I had spare eclipse glasses too. And for me it beat even Stone...
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Log Text: on a level bit of ground overlooking the severn valley to NW, and positioned between Corndon hill to the south and Stapeley hill to NNE. Has been battered by farmers but has a few stones as original.
Stapeley Hill Cairn
Date Added: 12th May 2025
Site Type: Cairn
Country: England (Shropshire)
Visited: Yes on 10th May 2025. My rating: Condition 2 Access 3
Stapeley Hill Cairn submitted by TimPrevett on 30th Dec 2004. A cairn on Stapeley Hill; see main entry for full details - click on blue text link to the left of the picture.
A composite shot looking towards Corndon Hill, and Mitchell's Fold (out of view).
It was snowing hard at this point on Midwinter Solstice Eve, and even I was questioning my sanity about being in this exposed, beautiful and dramatic landscape.
A biting wind meant I did not stay here for any longer than necessary to get a shot, but on subsequent trips, it will be worth spending tim...
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Log Text: a great little ring cairn right on the ridge, so has views to NW and SE, so would have been very visible on the skyline.
not protected and unfortunately the footpath goes right over it. so is eroding.
someone pretty important could have been buried here
Breiddin Hillfort
Date Added: 9th May 2025
Site Type: Hillfort
Country: Wales (Powys)
Visited: Yes on 9th May 2025. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 5 Access 2
Breiddin Hillfort submitted by TimPrevett on 24th May 2004. From the left Breiddin hill (also spellt Breidden) with New Pieces, centre and Moel y Golfa, right. Viewed from the south.
The hillfort on Breiddin hill made national news in July 2000 when the culmination of a decade of diligent deforestation showed the remains of this settlement, hidden for over 1500 years.
At well over 1000 feet above central eastern Powys (formerly Montgomeryshire), not far from the Shropshire border, the fort has a panoramic position. As one would expect, the extremel...
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Log Text: a fair hike to the summit (Rodneys pillar which sadly has been condemned as too decrepid to repair) took me 3 hours and only 1 1/4 to come down. great long distance views from top. the ramparts are mostly in woodland but the main entrance can be seen as the path goes through it. the full size of them can only be appreciated by a visit-they stretch about a mile from NE to SW on the SE side.
quite an awesome build.
Old Oswestry Fort
Date Added: 9th May 2025
Site Type: Hillfort
Country: England (Shropshire)
Visited: Yes on 8th May 2025. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 5 Access 4
Old Oswestry Fort submitted by Bladup on 16th Jan 2016. Old Oswestry, western side looking north.
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Log Text: a massively built enclosure, built in 3 phases from inner upper to outer lower. a sizable fairly level enclosure on top. good long distance views as usual