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New Mill Farm Enclosure
Date Added: 29th Oct 2019
Site Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Country: Wales (Mid Glamorgan)
Visited: Yes on 11th Oct 2018
New Mill Farm Enclosure submitted by TheCaptain on 11th Oct 2018. From Bing Maps.
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Bryn Cader Faner
Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Ring Cairn
Country: Wales (Gwynedd)
Visited: Yes on 9th Mar 2004
Bryn Cader Faner submitted by thecaptain on 9th Mar 2004. Bryn Cader Faner.
This is the truly wonderful sight as you approach this cracking circle up the hillside.
On a nice day, there is a lovely walk from Harlech, past Moel Goedog to Llyn Trawsfynydd along an ancient trackway, which passes several standing stones, several cairns and a few circles. This is the pick of them all.
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llech Idris
Date Added: 29th Oct 2019
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: Wales (Gwynedd)
Visited: Yes on 16th Jun 2017
llech Idris submitted by TheCaptain on 16th Jun 2017. Approaching the stone. The view up the valley is super, with lots of people out mountain biking and a farmer out with his dogs rounding up sheep.
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Cerrig Arthur
Date Added: 29th Oct 2019
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: Wales (Gwynedd)
Visited: Yes on 3rd Jan 2018
Cerrig Arthur submitted by TheCaptain on 3rd Jan 2018. View of Cerrig Arthur in its surroundings
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Erw Wen
Date Added: 29th Oct 2019
Site Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Country: Wales (Gwynedd)
Visited: Yes on 23rd Jan 2018
Erw Wen submitted by TheCaptain on 23rd Jan 2018. High on the slopes of Moel Goedog, in the hills above Harlech, is a collection of ancient walls and boundaries, with a large circular flattened area within which is a perfect circular homestead.
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Mynydd Cefn Amlwch
Date Added: 29th Oct 2019
Site Type: Chambered Tomb
Country: Wales (Gwynedd)
Visited: Yes on 24th Jan 2018
Mynydd Cefn Amlwch submitted by TheCaptain on 24th Jan 2018. Fenced off in its field half way up the hillside on a fairly substantial slope, this has a lovely shaped capstone sat on top of three uprights, with a few other large stones laying around.
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Moel Goedog 4
Date Added: 29th Oct 2019
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: Wales (Gwynedd)
Visited: Yes on 25th Jan 2018
Moel Goedog 4 submitted by TheCaptain on 25th Jan 2018. Stones 3 & 4 are in the field to the northwest of where the road splits from the track to Moel Goedog. The field was full of many inquisitive looking black bullocks that all come to have a look at me, and a huge white bull who keeps himself to himself in the corner of the field.
However, I can see the stones within the field, and get some pictures of them between the bullocks. Both are fairly block shaped stones, one of them with a couple of flat fractured faces, the other much more rotund....
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Moel Goedog 3
Date Added: 29th Oct 2019
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: Wales (Gwynedd)
Visited: Yes on 25th Jan 2018
Moel Goedog 3 submitted by TheCaptain on 25th Jan 2018. Stones 3 & 4 are in the field to the northwest of where the road splits from the track to Moel Goedog. The field was full of many inquisitive looking black bullocks that all come to have a look at me, and a huge white bull who keeps himself to himself in the corner of the field.
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Moel Goedog 2
Date Added: 29th Oct 2019
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: Wales (Gwynedd)
Visited: Yes on 25th Jan 2018
Moel Goedog 2 submitted by TheCaptain on 25th Jan 2018. Stone 2, now I have figured out that the road is not the main old trackway, is a short blocky affair, in the open land to the south of the road almost right at the split of the trackway.
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Moel Goedog 1
Date Added: 29th Oct 2019
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: Wales (Gwynedd)
Visited: Yes on 25th Jan 2018
Moel Goedog 1 submitted by TheCaptain on 25th Jan 2018. Stone 1 is a small affair, in the open land to the NE of the road just before the trackway splits into three.
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Moel Goedog 6
Date Added: 29th Oct 2019
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: Wales (Gwynedd)
Visited: Yes on 25th Jan 2018
Moel Goedog 6 submitted by TheCaptain on 25th Jan 2018. The third stone of the Moel Goedog complex of standing stones if travelling towards Moel Goedog from the southwest is a small stump, probably broken off and now with a sharply pointed top in the open land beside the road to the south.
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Moel Goedog 8
Date Added: 29th Oct 2019
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: Wales (Gwynedd)
Visited: Yes on 25th Jan 2018
Moel Goedog 8 submitted by TheCaptain on 25th Jan 2018. The first stone of the Moel Goedog complex if travelling towards Moel Goedog from the southwest is a decent size in the field to the south of the road.
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Moel Goedog 7
Date Added: 29th Oct 2019
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: Wales (Gwynedd)
Visited: Yes on 26th Jan 2018
Moel Goedog 7 submitted by TheCaptain on 26th Jan 2018. The second stone along the route of the Fonlief Hir ancient trackway is a splendid slab of a stone, much taller than me.
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Red Farm
Date Added: 30th Oct 2023
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: Wales (Conwy)
Visited: Yes on 13th Sep 2023. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 3 Access 2
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: Walking up from Penmaenmawr, once up on the plateau, the first site I see is the Red Farm stone circle. Its over a wall in a field containing horses, and there are lots of people out looking like they are on an organised shooting event, so I satisfy myself with the view over the wall. Looks like about 4 stones on a flattened platform, with a couple of other either outliers or moved stones laying around.
Maen Crwn
Date Added: 30th Oct 2023
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: Wales (Conwy)
Visited: Yes on 13th Sep 2023. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 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: A bit further southwest, and now into an open paddock like area below the farm, and this large stone is stood in the open grass below an avenue of trees. It has a scratches T + J on its southern face, along with other graffitti.
Fridd Wanc
Date Added: 30th Oct 2023
Site Type: Round Barrow(s)
Country: Wales (Conwy)
Visited: Yes on 13th Sep 2023. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 2
Fridd Wanc submitted by TimPrevett on 13th Sep 2004. Remains of a round barrow not far from Circle 275; see main entry for details.
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Log Text: Moving on and the next site just to the north of the trackway is the Fridd Wanc mound, with a telegraph pole standing from its centre. Just to the southeast are several boulders, three obvious large stones, with a couple more not so obvious. Is it the remains of an ancient burial chamber? Or on later thinking, another little circle?
Circle 275
Date Added: 30th Oct 2023
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: Wales (Conwy)
Visited: Yes on 13th Sep 2023. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 2
Circle 275 submitted by Baz on 26th Jul 2002. Circle 275 Stone Circle, Penmaenmawr.(SH725747)
Five stones in a very small circle with a diameter of 13ft.
The Druids` Circle is on the horizon on the left.
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Log Text: Next up is the snappily named Circle 275, which is to the south of the trackway in the long grass and heather. This is a lovely little circle of five stones with diameter about 3 metres, and in a most gorgeous setting with views out over the sea and up to the hills with the druids circle visible on the skyline. Is that a spiral carving I see on one of the stones?
Druids Circle (Penmaenmawr)
Date Added: 4th Nov 2023
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: Wales (Conwy)
Visited: Yes on 13th Sep 2023. My rating: Condition 5 Ambience 4 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: From circle 275 the stones of the Druids Circle can be seen up on the hill against the skyline. I make straight for it, but this is probably not the best way as it takes me through a little valley with lots of boggy area to get through. The site is positioned on a flattened platform area, with an embanked circle of stones about 35 metres diameter. Several of the stones are large and standing upright, many much smaller and some are flat to the ground. The position up here is gorgeous with the views out and over the sea with the Great Orme to the east, and Anglesey to the west. There are a couple here taking it all in, with the lady sat sketching the circle. I was intending having my lunch here, but I move on to the next site for that, so we do not disturb each other.
Monument 280
Date Added: 5th Nov 2023
Site Type: Ring Cairn
Country: Wales (Conwy)
Visited: Yes on 13th Sep 2023. My rating: Condition 3 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: Over a couple of mounds, and there is another catchily named site, Monument 280, of which I have no idea what type of site this is. There are many stones stood and arranged, but with no obvious pattern. There is a circle in the middle of them, and several in a straight line through the middle. Is that a burial cist beside one of the large stones? I see online something which states that in 1845 this was described as three circles. Time for lunch, and I notice a pair of glasses within what looks to me like a burial cist, with a leather strap hanging over the large stone beside it.
Cefn Coch (Penmaenmawr)
Date Added: 6th Nov 2023
Site Type: Ring Cairn
Country: Wales (Conwy)
Visited: Yes on 13th Sep 2023. 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: Having done my research beforehand, I now know to head up and over the nearby ridge to the south and there is the lovely ring cairn, about 10 to 12 metres diameter. It doesn't stand very proud of the ground, and has quite wide "walls".