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Visited 8.9.12 A CADW prehistoric site – one of many on Anglesey. Although this site is signposted it is not easy to park but this is a quiet road and we squeezed in on the grass verge. The Dolmen itself is visible from the road but a short walk (via a stone stile) will bring you up close and personal. (There is a large stone next to the stile – I wonder if this has anything to do with the Dolmen?) I noticed around the tomb a series of small concrete stumps. Are the stumps there to protect the site from farming or to show the original outline of the Dolmen? The capstone is very large with lichen growing on one side. As reported it is held up by 3 original standing stones and 2 brick pillars. The capstone seemed to me to be pointing towards Snowdonia. There are good views to be had. This is a good place to visit. |
Posted by CARL 18th September 2012ce |
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Visited 31st December 2011 Of all my many previous visits to Anglesey I'd never been here before. Despite being only a stones throw from Barclodiad-y-Gawres I'd always found the maze of lanes around Llanfaelog confusing, or maybe I'd been subconsciously avoiding seeing the appalling restoration of the dolmen, now with an OS map in hand there were no excuses so we set off to view the site. Initial impressions were hopeful, as we parked up in the tiny layby outside Ty Newydd's field, the shape of the huge capsone hove into view and I thought well that doesn't look too bad. Indeed from one angle it doesn't, but as you approach the true horror of the restoration becomes apparent. Oh dear. Looking more like a dodgy garage extension than a serious attempt at archaeological restoration the brick pillar 'supports' are so inappropriate as to totally ruin the form of the monument, and I desperately try to angle my photos to hide the ugly brickwork. Well done to the 19th century gaping rustic who lit a bonfire on the capstone cracking it and necessitating this later awful reconstruction. I'm generally in favour of restoring megalithic sites but to be honest this one would have looked better if it had been left in a tumbledown 'dolmen on a blasted heath' type state rather than having been used as bricklaying practice for the Ministry of Works. Surely it would now be possible to restore the monument in a more sympathetic way? If you can overlook the bricks the dolmen is of a good size, the capstone being impressively huge. I was initially perplexed by the small concrete posts which surrounded the structure, before figuring out that they indicated the circumference of the mound which would have once covered the dolmen (at least I think that's what they're for, please someone correct me if I'm wrong!) At least from one angle it looks great, like a perfect stone table, perhaps I can dream that one day someone will come along and restore it properly! |
Posted by Ravenfeather2nd March 2012ce Edited 2nd March 2012ce |
| Visited it in 2005, went across the muddy field too find it hunched in the corner, a strange sorry spectacle, with its huge concrete/brick crutch helping it to basically stay up. Be amazed at its resilience to time and man's indignity to it. Be astounded at the fact this structure has survived all this. It is for this reason it is always worth a visit. |
Posted by skins17th January 2008ce Edited 17th January 2008ce |
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Rain was swirling in the gloaming as we reached Ty Newydd, and I was also disappointed to note the utterly insensitive and ugly restoration work on this previously stunning cromlech. However, I suppose we shouldn't be ungrateful, as brickwork aside, we still see the structure erect. Best of all, the capstone offers a decidedly nautical feel; seen from below, it looks like the prow of a large ship. I remembered trips to HMS Victory. This post appears as part of the weblog entry Cool Cromlechs and Mysterious Menhirs
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Posted by treaclechops3rd September 2006ce Edited 3rd September 2006ce |
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Argh! Another example of hideous restoration! Whichever pricks decided to use pillars of bricks to hold up capstones need their brains concreted. I suppose I should be thankful that the capstone is still up but this beautiful chamber has been very badly damaged by it's repairs. You can get a view of it where the brick pillars are not visible and that is certainly worth enjoying. This post appears as part of the weblog entry Ynys Môn: the good, the bad and ugly
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Posted by Jane31st August 2006ce Edited 31st August 2006ce |
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Oh....... This can look so right. So how can it look so wrong at the same time? |
Posted by stubob22nd April 2003ce Edited 22nd April 2003ce |
| The broken capstone of Ty Newydd is held up by two wide stone built supports which ruin the site - however from one angle, they are obscured so it is possible to see the site as it would have been. A series of large stones in the wall next to the monument look quite suspicious. |
Posted by IronMan2nd April 2002ce |
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Ty Newydd Visited just before Easter 2000. It is a wonderful Dolmen...but I do agree with Julian, it’s repair is simply a disaster. Has or will anything be done it at least visually improve this site, which is in one of those few undistrubed corner’s of Anglesey not yet effected by development & road-works? |
Posted by Schlager Man 6th February 2002ce |
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Looking towards Aberffraw, near the shore, at Tynewydd, Llanfaelog, a double cromlech can, or rather, could be seen: one has been used up, the other has been broken. An "improving" tenant made hedges of the first; and a worshipping tenant, apparently believing in the fitness of what he considered an "altar" to the occasion, made a bonfire on the second to celebrate the coming of age of his landlord, and thus split the ponderous mass (5 feet thick and 13 1/2 feet long) in two. The stone is of the metamorphic rock of the country.From 'Annals and Antiquities of the counties and county families of Wales" by Nicholas Thomas (1872). |
Posted by Rhiannon23rd January 2010ce |
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George Eastman House ArchiveTy Newydd without its preposterous brick additions, taken by Alvin Langdon Coburn. The stones look in pretty much the same places. It makes you feel (from afar at least) that the bricks are sheer paranoia. But the capstone is broken? |
Posted by Rhiannon 20th January 2007ce Edited 20th January 2007ce |
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