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Coed y Caerau
Date Added: 12th Apr 2016
Site Type: Hillfort
Country: Wales (Powys)
Visited: Would like to visit
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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Slwch Camp
Date Added: 16th Mar 2017
Site Type: Hillfort
Country: Wales (Powys)
Visited: Yes. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 3
Slwch Camp submitted by Andy B on 27th Feb 2011. Slwch Tump
This level bench in the hillside is the southern edge of the hillfort which sits above and immediately east of Brecon/Aberhonddu. It is one of three hillforts which surround the town. Slwch Tump and nearby Pen-y-crug are accessible by public rights of way.
Copyright Alan Bowring and licensed for reuse under the Creative Commons Licence.
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Log Text: Much overgrown in summer and not spectacular, but the views are *enormous*.
Weston Camp
Date Added: 21st Mar 2017
Site Type: Hillfort
Country: Wales (Powys)
Visited: Yes on 17th Mar 2017. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 3
Weston Camp submitted by SumDoood on 21st Mar 2017. Taken from the southern edge of the enclosure. Notice 2/d in from the left is Allt yr Esgair, the location of another hillfort.
The lake is Llyn Safaddan / Llyn Langors / Llangorse Lake.
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Log Text: This location (where did that name Weston Camp come from?), is I think a settlement, not a hillfort. My 1:25000 map showed it as a Settlement. Both of these (hill)forts were perhaps "defended enclosures", but this is significantly smaller than the adjacent Llanfilo Camp.
Superb location for views of the Brecon Beacons which surely were of significance to the builders, and of other hillforts in the area.
Llangoed Maen Hir
Date Added: 13th Apr 2016
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: Wales (Powys)
Visited: Would like to visit
Llangoed Maen Hir submitted by 4th-Eden on 22nd May 2012. A standing stone at about 45 degrees in a filed close to the Wye Valley Walk just outside the village of Llyswen, Powys.
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Neuadd-Glan-Gwy
Date Added: 13th Apr 2016
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: Wales (Powys)
Visited: Would like to visit
Neuadd-Glan-Gwy submitted by 4th-Eden on 20th May 2012. A stone near the Hamlet of Llanstephan, Powys.
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Penmyarth
Date Added: 18th Apr 2016
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: Wales (Powys)
Visited: Would like to visit
Penmyarth submitted by cerrig on 10th Dec 2010. This shape is why it's called " The Fish stone". Looking East.
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Llwyn-Y-Fedwen
Date Added: 18th Apr 2016
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: Wales (Powys)
Visited: Would like to visit
Llwyn-y-Fedwen Standing Stone submitted by Johnny on 3rd Jul 2002. Llwyn-y-Fedwen Standing Stone, Powys (SO 157 204):
Marked on maps as standing stone but situated in private farmland. Also known as the Gliffaes stone, at 4.27m this is one of the tallest bronze age standing stones in Wales.
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Castell Dinas
Date Added: 22nd Apr 2016
Site Type: Hillfort
Country: Wales (Powys)
Visited: Would like to visit
Castell Dinas submitted by h_fenton on 29th Jun 2011. Castell Dinas - Hillfort, viewed from the north east.
31 July 2010
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Maen Llwyd (Powys)
Date Added: 26th Apr 2016
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: Wales (Powys)
Visited: Would like to visit
Maen Llwyd (Powys) submitted by Megawoogi on 4th Nov 2005. Image & text by Megawoogi; see main entry for more details - click on blue highlighted text to the top left of the picture for more information. Photo editing and submission by Shropshire Traveller.
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Crug Hywel
Date Added: 26th Apr 2016
Site Type: Hillfort
Country: Wales (Powys)
Visited: Would like to visit
Crug Hywel submitted by TheCaptain on 7th May 2004. Crug Hywel, Hillfort in Powys, SO226207
While on a stone hunting day in and around the Black Mountains, the murk on the hills cleared enough for me to get this picture of the Crug Hywel, or Table Mountain fort from near the Llangenny Stones - which I didnt find.
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Garn Fawr (Mynydd Llangyndir)
Date Added: 13th Sep 2016
Site Type: Cairn
Country: Wales (Powys)
Visited: Would like to visit
Garn Fawr (Mynydd Llangyndir) submitted by Megawoogi on 4th Nov 2005. Image & text by Megawoogi; see main entry for more details - click on blue highlighted text to the top left of the picture for more information. Photo editing and submission by Shropshire Traveller.
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Castle Bank (Radnorshire)
Date Added: 6th Feb 2017
Site Type: Hillfort
Country: Wales (Powys)
Visited: Would like to visit
Castle Bank (Radnorshire) submitted by Megawoogi on 4th Nov 2005. Image & text by Megawoogi; see main entry for more details - click on blue highlighted text to the top left of the picture for more information. Photo editing and submission by Shropshire Traveller.
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Allt yr Esgair
Date Added: 19th Mar 2017
Site Type: Hillfort
Country: Wales (Powys)
Visited: Would like to visit
Allt yr Esgair submitted by SumDoood on 19th Mar 2017. Allt yr Esgair (the long ridge 2/3 in from the left), viewed from the large hillfort at Allt Filo which is known as Llanfilo Camp.
In the middle distance is Llyn Safaddan, aka Llyn Llangors, aka Llangorse Lake.
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Beddau Folau Chambered Cairn
Date Added: 14th Jun 2017
Site Type: Cairn
Country: Wales (Powys)
Visited: Would like to visit
Beddau Folau Chambered Cairn submitted by PAB on 2nd Oct 2010. Beddau Folau Cairn: looking southward. The Elan Valley (and its string of reservoirs) is out of sight between the plateau on which the cairn stands and the opposite hills.
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Maes-Coch
Date Added: 25th Jun 2017
Site Type: Chambered Cairn
Country: Wales (Powys)
Visited: Would like to visit
Kinnerton
Date Added: 27th Jun 2017
Site Type: Standing Stones
Country: Wales (Powys)
Visited: Would like to visit
Kinnerton submitted by TheWhiteRider on 4th Jul 2005. We could only find one of the Kinerton Standing Stones. This one, just visible in the long grass is right next to a footpath. The other, according to the map, is just a little way down the road, but appears to be on private land and is hidden by a high hedge and other foliage. A visit during the Winter months may offer a glimpse of it.
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Old Radnor Church
Date Added: 28th Jun 2017
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: Wales (Powys)
Visited: Yes on 26th Jun 2017. My rating: Ambience 3 Access 4
Old Radnor Church submitted by TimPrevett on 2nd Sep 2006. The possible standing stone at Old Radnor Church, flanked by much later memorials. Looking north.
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Log Text: Standing stone unconvincing. Interesting stone head above S facing end of church. Useful info boards and panorama map on grassed area between pub and church.
Four Stones (Powys)
Date Added: 30th Jul 2017
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: Wales (Powys)
Visited: Yes on 30th Jul 2015. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 4
Four Stones (Powys) submitted by vicky on 13th Sep 2002. The Four Stones Stone Circle in Powys. Photo taken by Cassian Hall.
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Log Text: Well worth a visit. Ambience varies depending on the crops being grown around the site.
Penywyrlod
Date Added: 10th Aug 2017
Site Type: Chambered Tomb
Country: Wales (Powys)
Visited: Would like to visit
Penywyrlod submitted by dodomad on 21st Apr 2016.
In 2005 Caroline Wilkinson from Dundee University was commissioned to produce a forensic reconstruction of the skull discovered in 1972. Caroline's work involves taking a plaster cast of the skull and positioning pins on it to indicate the likely depth of flesh at a number of key locations. These depths are based on measurements from the faces of modern people of similar racial type. Clay is then used to build up the layers of muscle, before skin and hair are added. The style of hair cut and...
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Maen Serth
Date Added: 22nd Aug 2017
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: Wales (Powys)
Visited: Would like to visit
Maen Serth submitted by TimPrevett on 10th Aug 2005. The stone, with the location of Esgair Perfedd to the rear - a Roman Marching Camp said to take up to 4,000 soldiers, and believed to be constructed during the last Campaign against the (for us) Welsh. Did the Romans use these ridge top markers to help follow the route into the mountains? I reckon they did. Then I picture 4,000 tired, but battle ready Roman soldiers passing this stone some 1900 years ago. If the stones could speak...
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