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Sweyne's Howes South
Date Added: 29th Oct 2019
Site Type: Chambered Tomb
Country: Wales (West Glamorgan)
Visited: Yes on 16th Feb 2018
Sweyne's Howes South submitted by TheCaptain on 16th Feb 2018. Approaching the Sweyne's Howse sites from the top of Rhossili Down
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Sweyne's Howes North
Date Added: 29th Oct 2019
Site Type: Chambered Tomb
Country: Wales (West Glamorgan)
Visited: Yes on 19th Feb 2018
Sweyne's Howes North submitted by TheCaptain on 19th Feb 2018. Approaching the Sweyne's Howse sites from the top of Rhossili Down
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Rhossili Down Cairn 4
Date Added: 29th Oct 2019
Site Type: Cairn
Country: Wales (West Glamorgan)
Visited: Yes on 27th Feb 2018
Rhossili Down Cairn 4 submitted by TheCaptain on 27th Feb 2018. Remains of a round cairn on Rhossili Down, to the south of the trig point, just to the east of the main ridgetop pathway near a major junction.
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Rhossili Down Cairn 1
Date Added: 29th Oct 2019
Site Type: Cairn
Country: Wales (West Glamorgan)
Visited: Yes on 3rd Mar 2018
Rhossili Down Cairn 1 submitted by TheCaptain on 3rd Mar 2018. Remains of a cairn on the top ridge of Rhossili Down, about 15 m in diameter, to the north of the trig point.
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Rhossili Down ring cairn
Date Added: 29th Oct 2019
Site Type: Ring Cairn
Country: Wales (West Glamorgan)
Visited: Yes on 3rd Mar 2018
Rhossili Down ring cairn submitted by TheCaptain on 3rd Mar 2018. Remains of a 10m diameter ring cairn on the top of Rhossili Down, to the north east of the trig point. It is mostly overgrown but with enough white stones remaining to give the shape.
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Rhossili Down Cairn 2
Date Added: 29th Oct 2019
Site Type: Ring Cairn
Country: Wales (West Glamorgan)
Visited: Yes on 19th Mar 2018
Rhossili Down Cairn 2 submitted by TheCaptain on 19th Mar 2018. Approaching the cairn from the trig point to the south
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Worms Head, Promontary Fort
Date Added: 29th Oct 2019
Site Type: Promontory Fort / Cliff Castle
Country: Wales (West Glamorgan)
Visited: Yes on 17th Oct 2018
Worms Head, Promontary Fort submitted by TheCaptain on 17th Oct 2018. Worms Head, as seen from the top of Rhossili Down
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Rhossili millenium stone
Date Added: 29th Oct 2019
Site Type: Modern Stone Circle etc
Country: Wales (West Glamorgan)
Visited: Yes on 11th Feb 2019
Rhossili millenium stone submitted by TheCaptain on 11th Feb 2019. Large piece of white Rhossili Down conglomerate erected to commemorate the millenium, just outside the churchyard on a green beside the pathway up to the Down.
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St Lythans
Date Added: 26th Apr 2024
Site Type: Chambered Tomb
Country: Wales (South Glamorgan)
Visited: Yes on 11th Jul 2004. My rating: Access 4
St Lythans submitted by thecaptain on 9th Aug 2004. A picture of this massive structure with my Dad beside it for scale. They sure must have been big dogs who lived in here !
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Tinkinswood
Date Added: 26th Apr 2024
Site Type: Chambered Cairn
Country: Wales (South Glamorgan)
Visited: Yes on 11th Jul 2004. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 4
Tinkinswood submitted by thecaptain on 10th Aug 2004. While visiting Tinkinswood with my Dad recently, we could hardly fail to be impressed with the size of the capstone. What a lovely tomb this is.
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Log Text: While visiting Tinkinswood with my Dad in 2004, we could hardly fail to be impressed with the size of the capstone. What a lovely tomb this is. But more intriguing were the other rocks and stones in the vicinity. I knew the layout of the main chamber before I visited, but was surprised to find so many other stones and what looked like structures there were in the area. Since my visit, and before I got round to posting this, Sem has also commented on this, and added a few pictures. After visiting the main site, we spent some time looking at the other stones in the area. The first to be noted, while walking across the fields to the chamber from the little parking area, were some large stones in the field on the left (to the south). Closer inspection of this and it looked like this was the remains of another burial chamber, with a fallen dolmen type of structure, with other stones making out what could have been other chamber stones, or some sort of entrance. Looking carefully and the remains of a mound can be made out. Further on towards the main chamber, and again to the left of the pathway, and there are some large stones in a sort of pile in the hedgerow. All around in this region is an outcropping of a thick slab like rock, which has been used to make the structures. It is possible that these stones have just been moved and dumped into the hedgerow as part of a field clearance. However, it is also possible to my eyes, that these are the remains of some sort of tomb. Still further towards the main tomb, at the gateway used to get from one field into that which the main chamber lives in, are a couple of fairly large standing stones. These also look fairly ancient. Is it possible that they some ancient stone remains, or are they simple the remains of an old stile? In the field to the south of here (the main tomb is to the north) I was intrigued by some rock outcrops which seemed to have some form other than just the natural. Investigating this, and I could not fail to notice what seemed like a stone avenue which lead towards the two large standing stones at the stile. The alignment of this avenue would have been directly to the entrance and main forecourt of the main tomb. It is possible that this is not actually a stone avenue, but perhaps a trackway cut into the bedrock (the 2 foot thick slabstone) with what looks like stone uprights being remnants of the slab. But why would anyone do this ? In the wooded area surrounding the main chamber, there appear to be many more stones, either standing or fallen. Some of these are more clearly seen from the fields around the outside of the fenced region of the large barrow remains. One of the more fascinating things I found is in a little wooded copse to the southeast of the main chamber, between the "avenue" field, and the "dolmen" field. Inside this dark little wood, the natural rock outcrop can be seen clearly at the surface of the ground, as about a two foot thick slab, horizontally positioned on the surface. The real interesting thing here is that this slab has been quarried at some time in the distant past, perhaps by being burrowed underneath before breaking large slabs off. Well by now I might have been imagining things, but I would have put money on one large bit of the slab that was removed being a match for the massive Tinkinswood capstone. It seems that not only the size and shape were a good match, but also the thickness. Had I found the quarry from where the massive stones of the chamber were taken. It was lovely to think so. The area Tinkinswood chamber is obviously so much more than just the large barrow and tombs. Perhaps the entire local landscape is of monumental importance. It would be nice to know if anything else is known.
Castle Ditches (Glamorgan)
Date Added: 9th Sep 2020
Site Type: Hillfort
Country: Wales (South Glamorgan)
Visited: Saw from a distance on 21st Sep 2019
Castle Ditches (Glamorgan) submitted by TheCaptain on 22nd Sep 2019. The wooded remnants of the Castle Ditches promotary fort near Llantwit Major.
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Nash Point
Date Added: 28th Oct 2019
Site Type: Promontory Fort / Cliff Castle
Country: Wales (South Glamorgan)
Visited: Yes on 10th Oct 2018
Nash Point submitted by sem on 5th Nov 2012. One I made earlier
Just found this pic I took last year. Looking west the outer bank can be seen as the highest yet least defendable.
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Log Text: Day out exploring the south Wales coast. Walk from Monknash down to the beach and then along the clifftop to Nash Point. Several rows of banks and ditches remain in good condition defending what is left of this clifftop promontary, now well eroded by the sea into a fairly narrow area.
Ogmore Cross Shaft
Date Added: 28th Oct 2019
Site Type: Early Christian Sculptured Stone
Country: Wales (South Glamorgan)
Visited: Yes on 10th Oct 2018
Ogmore Cross Shaft submitted by coin on 26th Apr 2015. An early 11th C. incomplete shaft of a cross-slab, with inscriptions on both faces (enclosed by triple-moulded borders) Supposedly, the inscription reads:
EST / QUOD.DED[IT] / ARTHMAIL /AGRUM DO / ET GLIGUIS. / ET NERTAT ET FILIE : SU[A]
The slab was discovered at the castle in 1929 and built into the base.
Source: GGAT
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Log Text: Day out exploring the south Wales coast. On the way back, stop off at Ogmore Castle, gleaming orange in the setting sun. Within the castle is mounted a stone which clearly has carvings on it, but in the dark shadow of the castle walls, it was impossible to make anything out clearly.
Pen-Y-Gaer (Llanrhidian Lower)
Date Added: 29th Oct 2019
Site Type: Hillfort
Country: Wales (South Glamorgan)
Visited: Yes on 16th Jun 2013
Pen-Y-Gaer (Llanrhidian Lower) submitted by theCaptain on 16th Jun 2013. Pen-y-Gaer seen here looking west from Pen-Clawwd.
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St Lythans
Date Added: 26th Apr 2024
Site Type: Chambered Tomb
Country: Wales (South Glamorgan)
Visited: Yes on 25th Apr 2024. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 4
St Lythans submitted by Mark_in_Wales on 22nd Jun 2022. Photo Competition 2022 WINNING ENTRY. This light beam was photographed at 21:14 BST on the 20th of June 2022. St Lythans Burial Chamber is a highly accurate tool for determining the Winter Calendar and making this stunning Arrowhead light-beam at Midsummer. The arrowhead shape (known as an oblique arrowhead in academic circles) is extremely precise, with a straight back, curved cutting surface and hooked single tang. The light-beam is formed by only three stones and the angle of the wall it is b...
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Log Text: Time for another visit to St Lythams and Tinkinswood. Very nice in the lush springtime
Tinkinswood
Date Added: 26th Apr 2024
Site Type: Chambered Cairn
Country: Wales (South Glamorgan)
Visited: Yes on 25th Apr 2024. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 3 Access 4
Tinkinswood submitted by Mark_in_Wales on 31st Jul 2022. Tinkinswood and Coed-y-Cwm Capstones Photogrammetry. Chambers are 1km away from each other, yet seem to have a connection.
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Log Text: Time for another visit to Tinkinswood burial chamber, where I sit and eat my lunch with lots of birdsong. Since my last time here, there has been a lot of fencing off of the eastern and southern fields, making it impossible to see the other chamber or quarry area. What I remember as a possible avenue to the south seems to have all been ripped up and dumped in a heap. To the north, and taking up most of the parking area, there is a lot of road building going on, presumably to a farm on the north side. So overall, very much not improved.
Bwlch Standing Stone
Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: Wales (Powys)
Visited: Yes on 6th May 2004
Bwlch Standing Stone submitted by thecaptain on 6th May 2004. Bwlch Standing Stone in Powys, SO150219
At Bwlch, the A40 makes a large hairpin bend to get up the hillside. In the field which is largely surrounded by this road is this Standing Stone, which is about 2 metres tall.
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Cwrt-y-Gollen
Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: Wales (Powys)
Visited: Yes on 6th May 2004
Cwrt-y-Gollen submitted by thecaptain on 6th May 2004. Cwrt-y-Gollen, Standing Stone in Powys, SO232168
This magnificent standing stone lives beside the busy A40 just inside the entrance to the Welsh Brigade army camp just to the south of Crickhowell. Over 4 metres high, “The Growing Stone” looks most impressive, and has a pleasant grass and trees area around it.
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Crug Hywel
Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Hillfort
Country: Wales (Powys)
Visited: Yes on 7th May 2004
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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Mynydd Troed
Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Chambered Tomb
Country: Wales (Powys)
Visited: Yes on 9th May 2004
Mynydd Troed submitted by TheCaptain on 9th May 2004. Mynydd Troed, Chambered Tomb in Powys, SO161284
The remains of this tomb, marked Long Cairn on the map, are nicely positioned at the top of the pass to the west end of Mynydd Troed hill.
This view of the mound is looking south across the pass towards Mynydd Llangorse.
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