I'm not really a fan of rusty railings, others may find interest in them but I dont see their appeal, I just can't get past the imposition on the land, an electric cow fence might be more aesthetic if crowd control is what your after. But if you intend to keep them away, to bind them, to deny them, then a big rusty fence is what your after.
Visit the stones when ever you can, visting hours are between now and then.
Visited 7th December 2003: We parked on the A496 and asked about access at a house near the stones. The gentleman I spoke to was very congenial. He said that a footpath runs very close to them, and he couldn't see any problem with us taking a closer look. I should add that it wasn't his land, but he seemed to know what he was talking about.
We found the stones standing very modestly in the field in the shadow of a large tree which stands right next to them. There's an iron fence around them and the tree, presumably to protect all three from livestock. One of the stones is tall and slender, and the other much shorter. As Julian observed, the smaller of the two looks almost delicate, and it's amazing that's it's survived. Wear wellies if you visit during the winter.
I couldn't get into the church when I visited back in the summer of '99. Reflections of you in the waterfall. The Llanbedr stones are nearby though in a flat field. My travelling companion of the time listened to the stones for several minutes and said that she heard the stones tell her some stories. She's Krautrock. Very nice and YHA accomodations nearby too if ya fancy.
From Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of Wales, 1849.
"The church, dedicated to St. Peter, is an ancient structure; according to an absurd local tradition it was originally intended to erect it at a place about forty yards to the right of the road, where are four or five broad stones, eight feet high, standing upright; but the workmen found that what they executed by day was removed at night, and therefore commenced the building on the site it now occupies."
The stone pair at Llanbedr are thought by some to be the first of a number of Bronze Age standing stones marking a trade route into the mountains. The theory is that metal was transported inland having been unloaded from boats moored on the coast (or Afon Artro?).
The stones are also known as Meini Hirion (meaning long stones).
An old photo of the Llandbedr Stones by Alvin Langdon Coburn, incorrectly labelled as "Harlech, Standing Stones".
The date of the photo isn't clear, but the size of the tree gives a clue to the date. Mr Coburn was alive between 1882 and 1966, so my guess would be early 20th Century.
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