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Mynydd Mallaen
Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: Wales (Carmarthenshire)
Visited: Yes on 8th Jul 2007
Mynydd Mallaen submitted by pab on 8th Jul 2007. Standing Stone on Mynydd Mallaen, looking across to the Brecon Beacons and the Black Mountain along the horizon.
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Crugiau Merched
Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Cairn
Country: Wales (Carmarthenshire)
Visited: Yes on 9th Jul 2007
Crugiau Merched submitted by pab on 9th Jul 2007. The ridge containing the remaining cairns of Crugiau Merched - with the Trig Point between them.
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Maen Bach
Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: Wales (Carmarthenshire)
Visited: Yes on 9th Jul 2007
Maen Bach submitted by pab on 9th Jul 2007. Site in Carmarthenshire (Sir Caerfyrddin)
Maen Bach Standing Stone, on Mynydd Mallaen.
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Maen Hir Farm 4
Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: Wales (Carmarthenshire)
Visited: Yes on 22nd Jul 2007
Maen Hir Farm 4 submitted by pab on 22nd Jul 2007. Site in Carmarthenshire (Sir Caerfyrddin)
Stone (4) on Maen Hir Farm from the east, showing its delightful curve. Other faces show signs of use as gatepost, suggesting that it has not always been in its current location.
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Maen Hir Farm 1
Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: Wales (Carmarthenshire)
Visited: Yes on 22nd Jul 2007
Maen Hir Farm 1 submitted by pab on 22nd Jul 2007. This picture was taken, with permission, from inside the field alongside the public right of way down the track to Maen Hir Farm.
RCAHM for Wales (NPRN304268) seems to confuse this with another stone, as it refers to it as being 2.4m high...which this certainly is not - less than 1.4 would be closer, but I failed to take tape with me!
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Maen Pica Stone
Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: Wales (Carmarthenshire)
Visited: Yes on 22nd Jul 2007
Maen Pica Stone submitted by pab on 22nd Jul 2007. As noted by Vicki, the stone is on private land, but there is a lane which gives level and non-intrusive access to view across the field.
The 1.6m reported by RCAHM (their NPRN ref 304278) seems about right.
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Capel Nebo Stone
Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: Wales (Carmarthenshire)
Visited: Yes on 23rd Jul 2007
Capel Nebo Stone submitted by pab on 23rd Jul 2007. As PaulM says, this stone does not lend itself to viewing! I aim to try and get even closer when the hedgerows are not quite so dense.
Little information available from the RCAHMW site (their ref NPRN304277), except its estimated height as being 2.4m, and its more precise location as SN13852540.
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Efailwen-Isaf Barrow
Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Round Barrow(s)
Country: Wales (Carmarthenshire)
Visited: Yes on 23rd Jul 2007
Efailwen-Isaf Barrow submitted by pab on 23rd Jul 2007. Round Barrow at Efailwen, just off the A478 between Narberth and Cardigan, within sight of Precelli Hills.
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The Millenium Stone
Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Modern Stone Circle etc
Country: Wales (Carmarthenshire)
Visited: Yes on 12th Aug 2007
The Millenium Stone submitted by pab on 12th Aug 2007. Millenium Stone, used in the attempted move from Pembrokeshire to Stonehenge in 2000.
The Panel includes a photograph of the attempt and details of its end in Milford Haven.
A large Bluestone from the Preseli Hills has been erected nearby.
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Bannau Sir Gaer
Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: Wales (Carmarthenshire)
Visited: Yes on 20th Apr 2008
Bannau Sir Gaer submitted by pab on 20th Apr 2008. As noted in RCAHMW description, many of these stones in this circle are difficult to find - especially if the grass ever gets a chance to grow!
This picture picks out the stones which were visible on our latest walk around the wonderful Carmarthen Fan circuit.
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Picws Du
Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Cairn
Country: Wales (Carmarthenshire)
Visited: Yes on 27th Apr 2008
Picws Du submitted by pab on 27th Apr 2008.
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Ffynnon Llawddog
Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Holy Well or Sacred Spring
Country: Wales (Carmarthenshire)
Visited: Yes on 25th Aug 2008
Ffynnon Llawddog submitted by pab on 25th Aug 2008. Ffynnon Llawddog, Cenarth. Reported as never having run dry, and known for its cures. Named after St Llawddog, who is the patron saint of the nearby church.
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St Anthony's Well (Llansteffan)
Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Holy Well or Sacred Spring
Country: Wales (Carmarthenshire)
Visited: Yes on 12th Oct 2008
St Anthony's Well (Llansteffan) submitted by pab on 12th Oct 2008. St Anthony's Well (Llansteffan)
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Llanddowror Standing stone
Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: Wales (Carmarthenshire)
Visited: Yes on 3rd Nov 2008
Llanddowror Standing stone submitted by pab on 3rd Nov 2008. Slender and modest standing stone which is on the flood-plain of the river Taf near St Clears (not to be confused with the slightly larger river Taff running through Cardiff!).
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Cross Stones, Llanddowror
Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Early Christian Sculptured Stone
Country: Wales (Carmarthenshire)
Visited: Yes on 31st Jan 2009
Cross Stones, Llanddowror submitted by pab on 31st Jan 2009. Both 'cross stones' referred to by COFLEIN, the nearer (easterly) one being larger and sporting a much clearer cross marking.
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Llandawke Inscribed Stone
Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Early Christian Sculptured Stone
Country: Wales (Carmarthenshire)
Visited: Yes on 31st Jan 2009
Llandawke Inscribed Stone submitted by pab on 31st Jan 2009. Side view of the Ogham and Latin script.
Mary Curtis' book contains some very clear sketches of both scripts...well worth looking out for a copy of her work, which was produced as a facsimile by the former Dyyed County Council.
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Carn Fadog
Date Added: 24th Jul 2011
Site Type: Cairn
Country: Wales (Carmarthenshire)
Visited: Yes on 23rd Jul 2011
Carn Fadog submitted by pab on 23rd Jul 2011. Carn Fadog, described by COFLEIN as being damaged and hollowed out.
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Log Text: Visited on 23rd July while on a 'field visit' walk organised by the South Wales Geologists' Association, led by Alan Bowring.
Focus for the walk was the local geology and industrial archaeology, so we didn't get up to the cairn itself and I cannot therefore report how damaged its centre now is. Definitely worth a walk though - we started from car park next to playground in Ystradowen SN752124 and did a circular 9 mile route via Bryn-henllys Bridge, mainly using the routes of old tramways once used in local quarrying activities.
There are some very boggy stretches - expect many little diversions to avoid!
Derlwyn Isaf
Date Added: 24th Jul 2011
Site Type: Cairn
Country: Wales (Carmarthenshire)
Visited: Yes on 23rd Jul 2011
Derlwyn Isaf submitted by pab on 24th Jul 2011. Derlwyn Isaf Cairn.
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Log Text: Visited on 23rd July while on a 'field visit' walk organised by the South Wales Geologists' Association, led by Alan Bowring.
We got to this towards the end of a 9 mile circular walk, but it could be reached fairly easily without doing all that - we started from car park next to playground in Ystradowen SN752124. The area around the hillock on which the cairn sits was (and probably is normally) very boggy.
Top Castle, Eglwyscummin
Date Added: 21st Sep 2011
Site Type: Hillfort
Country: Wales (Carmarthenshire)
Visited: Yes on 5th Aug 2011
Top Castle, Eglwyscummin submitted by pab on 5th Aug 2011. Top Castle. Photo taken 14 Aug 2010
Iron Age Hillfort located above Marros Sands, on the border between Carmarthenshire and Pembrokeshire.
The access path can be seen zig-zagging its way up the hillside, looking from the west.
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Garreg Garn Fair
Date Added: 11th Mar 2012
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: Wales (Carmarthenshire)
Visited: Yes on 11th Mar 2012
Garreg Garn Fair submitted by pab on 11th Mar 2012. Photo taken on 8th of March 2012.
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