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Old Castle Camp
Date Added: 26th Sep 2010
Site Type: Promontory Fort / Cliff Castle
Country: Wales (West Glamorgan)
Visited: Yes on 9th Feb 2005
Old Castle Camp submitted by AngieLake on 9th Feb 2005. Part of the raised north bank of the Iron Age fort near the north cliff of the headland which ends, at its west, in Worm's Head.
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Cae'r-hen-Eglwys
Date Added: 26th Sep 2010
Site Type: Standing Stones
Country: Wales (West Glamorgan)
Visited: Yes on 9th Aug 2006
Cae'r-hen-Eglwys submitted by AngieLake on 9th Aug 2006. SEM at Cae'r Hen Eglwys stones, giving a sense of scale. I'd been looking forward to seeing these for ages, so thanks a lot Simon! It would be good to explore the field when the undergrowth has died down.
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Coity
Date Added: 26th Sep 2010
Site Type: Chambered Cairn
Country: Wales (West Glamorgan)
Visited: Yes on 28th Feb 2010
Pond Cairn submitted by AngieLake on 28th Feb 2010. This picture titled 'Pond Cairn, Bridgend; after excavation' comes from 'Prehistoric England' by Grahame Clark, F.S.A. (4th edition, 1948. 1st edition was 1940).
Sem thinks it now lies under an industrial estate. I also found this possible link.
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National Museum Cardiff
Date Added: 26th Sep 2010
Site Type: Museum
Country: Wales (South Glamorgan)
Visited: Yes on 21st Nov 2004
National Museum Cardiff submitted by AngieLake on 21st Nov 2004. 'The Queen of the Night', the rare and important Mesopotamian relief on loan from the British Museum, coming close to the end of its countrywide tour. It has only one week left at Cardiff's National Museum and Gallery of Wales before going to Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery from 1st December to 19th April 2005. (See today's comment on Cardiff's National Museum and Gallery of Wales section for more info on the figure.)
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St Illtud's Cross
Date Added: 26th Sep 2010
Site Type: Early Christian Sculptured Stone
Country: Wales (South Glamorgan)
Visited: Yes on 8th Aug 2006
St Illtud's Cross submitted by AngieLake on 8th Aug 2006. The cross in the foreground, left, is St Illtud's Cross, also known as the Samson Cross. It is 2.15 metres high, and probably originally capped by a wheel cross.
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Tinkinswood
Date Added: 26th Sep 2010
Site Type: Chambered Cairn
Country: Wales (South Glamorgan)
Visited: Yes on 18th Jul 2008
Tinkinswood submitted by AngieLake on 18th Jul 2008. A recent shot of Tinkinswood.
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St Lythans
Date Added: 26th Sep 2010
Site Type: Chambered Tomb
Country: Wales (South Glamorgan)
Visited: Yes on 19th Jul 2008
St Lythans submitted by AngieLake on 19th Jul 2008. The 'St Lythans Guardian'.
I first noticed the amazing (and quite spooky) human likeness of this stone in 2002, and it seems even more striking now, on a 2nd visit.
[The hole is the mouth, and two depressions where eyes would be. The rest of the 'body' is about right for size ratio. Was this intended, I wonder?]
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Maen Mawr
Date Added: 26th Sep 2010
Site Type: Stone Row / Alignment
Country: Wales (Powys)
Visited: Yes on 8th Aug 2005
Maen Mawr submitted by AngieLake on 8th Aug 2005. This pic of Maen Mawr shows the two little stones that align with its north side, and the view looking south down the valley as it aligns N/S with the centre of Cerrig Duon circle.
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Cerrig Duon stone circle
Date Added: 26th Sep 2010
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: Wales (Powys)
Visited: Yes on 8th Aug 2005
Cerrig Duon stone circle submitted by AngieLake on 8th Aug 2005. Cerrig Duon circle, whose small stones border the edge of the southern semi-circular end of a platform in the Afon Tawe valley, a few metres to the south of Maen Mawr (nearest camera). To the right of pic is one of the larger stones in the WNW arc.
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Trecastle Mountain ENE
Date Added: 26th Sep 2010
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: Wales (Powys)
Visited: Yes on 6th Nov 2005
Trecastle Mountain ENE submitted by AngieLake on 6th Nov 2005. This stone is the same one featured on this site page by SEM, when he explains how nearby stones seem to form an avenue leading to the main circle at Y Pigwn. Dowsing, when SEM showed me the area at the end of July, confirmed this. This stone (seen here looking across the NW avenue route towards NE) actually dowsed as the left-hand one of a pair of huge portals at the beginning of flatter ground on which the circle stands. The other huge stone used to stand near the tussock of grass above it i...
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Gwernvale
Date Added: 26th Sep 2010
Site Type: Chambered Tomb
Country: Wales (Powys)
Visited: Yes on 16th Oct 2007
Gwernvale submitted by AngieLake on 16th Oct 2007. A reconstruction of the appearance of Gwernvale from 'The Brecon Beacons National Park' [Countryside Commission Official Guide] by Roger Thomas, Webb & Bower (Michael Joseph), 1987.
What fascinated me was the arrangement of posts at the 'false entrance' in the horned forecourt, as I always get three or four 'rod-openings' [ie: my L-shaped rods open at right-angles to each other] on final approach to the 'entrance' during ritual movement dowses at chambered tombs.
Here, it says the posts are ...
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Old Radnor Church
Date Added: 26th Sep 2010
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: Wales (Powys)
Visited: Yes on 5th Jul 2008
Old Radnor Church submitted by AngieLake on 5th Jul 2008. Tim - this is for you! The old font in Old Radnor church that is believed to come from a megalithic stone - "probably the largest and oldest font in Britain" (quote from an old 'Red Guide' to Wales).
On the day I visited (6th June 08), volunteers were cutting the grass in the churchyard, so maybe that was why the door to the church was open?
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Walton Palisaded Enclosure
Date Added: 26th Sep 2010
Site Type: Timber Circle
Country: Wales (Powys)
Visited: Yes on 9th Aug 2008
Walton Palisaded Enclosure submitted by AngieLake on 9th Aug 2008. Hindwell "a major ceremonial focus in Wales" near Walton. The palisaded enclosure might have been visible in the valley below here.
Photographed from Old Radnor Church graveyard. [Standing to the NW of church, looking north.]
The flat Walton Basin surrounded by hills also contains the Four Stones and Kinnerton Stones, as well as the Walton Cursus.
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Hindwell Enclosure
Date Added: 26th Sep 2010
Site Type: Timber Circle
Country: Wales (Powys)
Visited: Yes on 9th Aug 2008
Hindwell Enclosure submitted by AngieLake on 9th Aug 2008. NB: Copyright: Rodney Castleden from his book 'Britain 3000 BC'.
I am sure Mr Castleden wouldn't begrudge us the use of this helpful map on p.71 of the above book, to enable us to understand the layout of the various sites in the Walton Basin. He describes this area's prehistory under the heading 'Hindwell - a major ceremonial focus in Wales.'
(Note the Fourstones, upper left.)
See 'Walton Palisaded Enclosure' site page for photos taken from Old Radnor Church, looking out over the fla...
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Four Stones (Powys)
Date Added: 26th Sep 2010
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: Wales (Powys)
Visited: Yes on 9th Aug 2008
Four Stones (Powys) submitted by AngieLake on 9th Aug 2008. The handy parking space near the gateway of the field where the Fourstones stand. This was taken from a vantage point in the hedge, close to the stones.
[Unable to access field due to crop.]
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Kinnerton
Date Added: 26th Sep 2010
Site Type: Standing Stones
Country: Wales (Powys)
Visited: Yes on 9th Aug 2008
Kinnerton submitted by AngieLake on 9th Aug 2008. The stone at Kinnerton. I didn't want to disturb the ponies in the field, so had to be content with this shot from the gate.
6 June 08
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Carreg Wen Fawr Y Rugos Stone Row
Date Added: 26th Sep 2010
Site Type: Stone Row / Alignment
Country: Wales (Powys)
Visited: Yes on 22nd Apr 2010
Carreg Wen Fawr Y Rugos Stone Row submitted by AngieLake on 22nd Apr 2010. Looking approx SW towards the patch of dry grass where the stone row is situated. Straight up from the right side of this stone [which may be part of a processional way towards the row from the valley of the Usk River at Llangynidr], you'll see the small patch almost on the brow of the near horizon.
Above it is a shallow rise, upon which a cairn is situated. By dowsing, I also found a cairn on the slight rise to the left, where the near horizon meets the falling slope of the distant mountain...
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Carreg Wen Fawr Y Rugos Cairns
Date Added: 26th Sep 2010
Site Type: Cairn
Country: Wales (Powys)
Visited: Yes on 24th Apr 2010
Carreg Wen Fawr Y Rugos Cairns submitted by AngieLake on 24th Apr 2010. Cairn 1 uphill from the stone row, looking back approx NE towards Black Mountains.
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Carreg Samson, Abercastle
Date Added: 26th Sep 2010
Site Type: Chambered Tomb
Country: Wales (Pembrokeshire)
Visited: Yes on 25th Oct 2004
Carreg Samson, Abercastle submitted by AngieLake on 25th Oct 2004. Carreg Sampson in Pembrokeshire stands in such a lovely position that it is usually photographed from the most picturesque angle, showing the bay and distant Strumble Head. This time it is viewed from its longer SE side, giving a better idea of the size, and slope of the capstone. (From memory, the capstone sloped up towards the NE, and Strumble Head.)
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Gors Fawr Outliers
Date Added: 26th Sep 2010
Site Type: Standing Stones
Country: Wales (Pembrokeshire)
Visited: Yes on 19th Jul 2008
Gors Fawr Outliers submitted by AngieLake on 19th Jul 2008. This is the Gors Fawr outlier nearest to the cottages at the NE of the site. Its pair is visible in the background.
The bright stripey colours [lichen?] have not been enhanced.
(Taken on cheap 35mm Fuji film, 2.6.08.)
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