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63 posts Bache Hill and the Whimble Round Barrow(s)	6 posts The Beacon Cairn(s)	4 posts Beggar's Bush Round Barrow(s)
8 posts Black Mixen Round Barrow(s)	3 posts Broomy Hill Standing Stone / Menhir	12 posts Bryn y Maen Stone Row / Alignment
4 posts Bryn y Maen fallen monolith Standing Stone / Menhir	19 posts Burfa Camp Hillfort	1 post Carn Wen Cairn(s)
8 posts Carregwiber Hillfort	7 posts Carregwiber (stone 1) Standing Stone / Menhir	11 posts Castle Bank Hillfort
9 posts Castle Ring Hillfort	7 posts Cefn Ceidio Round Barrow(s)	1 post Cefn Ceidio Round Barrow(s)
6 posts Cefn Llyn Standing Stone / Menhir	4 posts Cefn Wyfre Stone Circle	6 posts Clap yr Arian Cairn(s)
8 posts Clyro Court Farm Long Barrow	6 posts Creggin Cairn(s)	4 posts Crossfield Lane barrow Round Barrow(s)
2 posts Crossfoot Farm Standing Stone / Menhir	Crossway Barrow Round Barrow(s)	5 posts Crugyn Gwyddel Cairn(s)
6 posts Cwmade Barrow Round Barrow(s)	7 posts Cwm Maerdy Standing Stone / Menhir	5 posts Cwm Stone Standing Stone / Menhir
6 posts Fedw Stone Circle	1 post Fedw Llwyd Round Barrow(s)	6 posts Ffrwd Stone Standing Stone / Menhir
48 posts The Four Stones Stone Circle	21 posts Gelli Hill Stone Circle	10 posts Gelli Hill Cairn Cairn(s)
8 posts Gelli Hill stone Standing Stone / Menhir	6 posts Giants Grave Barrow / Cairn Cemetery	5 posts Gilfach Hill Enclosure
7 posts Gilwern Hill Cairn(s)	11 posts Graig Camp Hillfort	1 post Gwern Dyfnant Round Barrow(s)
2 posts Harpton Court Barrow Round Barrow(s)	3 posts Hindwell Cursus Cursus (Destroyed)	4 posts Hindwell Enclosure Enclosure
7 posts Hindwell round barrow group Barrow / Cairn Cemetery	16 posts Kinnerton Court Stone I Standing Stone / Menhir	10 posts Kinnerton Court Stone II Standing Stone / Menhir
5 posts Knobley Standing Stone / Menhir	1 post Knobley Brook barrow Round Barrow(s)	1 post Larch Grove Standing Stone / Menhir
1 post Little Hill cairn II Cairn(s)	1 post Little Hill cairn III Cairn(s)	4 posts Little Hill VII Round Barrow(s)
4 posts Llandegley Rocks Ancient Village / Settlement / Misc. Earthwork	6 posts Llanerch Stone Cup Marked Stone	4 posts Llyn Dwr Standing Stone / Menhir
1 post Llyn Gwyn Enclosure	6 posts Maengwyngweddw Standing Stone / Menhir	21 posts Marteg Valley Kerbed Cairn
1 post Milton Hill Round Barrow(s)	2 posts Old Stone (Pant-y-Caregl) Standing Stone / Menhir	5 posts Pawl Hir Ring Cairn
1 post Pennant Pound Round Barrow(s)	5 posts Shepherd's Well cross dyke Dyke	2 posts Six Stones Stone Circle
7 posts Ty Lettice Round Barrow(s)	12 posts The Van Barrow / Cairn Cemetery	2 posts Walton Green Cursus Cursus (Destroyed)
1 post Wern-y-Gaufron Round Barrow(s)	1 post Womaston Causewayed Enclosure

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5 posts Hindwell Pool	8 posts Hindwell Stone Standing Stone / Menhir	6 posts Maen Hir Standing Stone / Menhir
18 posts Maen Serth Standing Stone / Menhir	2 posts Moll Walbee's Stone Standing Stone / Menhir	5 posts Old Radnor Church Christianised Site

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Maybe it's relevant, maybe it's not, but there are a number of distinctive conical hills near Old Radnor: Stanner Rocks, Worsell Wood, Hanter Hill. Apparently these contain some of the oldest rocks in Wales - Precambrian and 700 million years old. Old Radnor was called 'Pen-y-Graig': 'head of the rock'. The geology means Stanner Rocks supports some pretty strange and rare plants, and it was said: "by the common people it is called the Devil's Garden." You can't help wondering where the stones for the local monuments came from. Probably.

"The Cambrian Balnea: Or Guide to the Watering Places of Wales, Marine and Inland" by Thomas Jeffery Llewelyn Prichard (1825).

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Posted by Rhiannon
12th September 2007ce

Extracted from "Betwixt & Between" by Mary Dodsworth and Iain Steele in "The Cauldron" no.115), themselves drawing on "The Folklore of Radnorshire" by Roy Palmer :-
Beguildy church, on raised site by River Teme, probably a B.A. settlement.
Bleddfa church on a B.A. mound.
Bryngwyn: The Six Stones near N boundary of village is a stone circle of ~12 stones.
Llanfihangel Cascob cut into a burial mound.
Llanfihangel Cefnllys a B.A. site. I.A. fort on Cefnllys Hill turned into mediaeval castle.
Discoed church south of a five millenium old yew - a circular site about an antient mound and a Neolithic tree.
Disserth church a circular site with a well nearby formerly dressed with mistletoe.
Kinnerton church within an earlier circular wall. By the road to Old Radnor there is a standing stone.
Llanbister church has tower behind altar, at the E end. Sulfur well overlooks church.
Llandegley church very late, healing well on Cymaron riverbank side nearby.
Llandeio Graban tower bedroom for last Welsh dragon.
Llandewi Ystradenni. Giant's burial at Tomen Beddugre nearby.
Llanelwedd church has thity tumuli within half-a-mile and a lost standing stone.
Llanfihangel Nant Melan ringed by ancient yews, with one holding solitary remnant of a stone circle.
Nantmel church has 6 two millenia old yews in precinct. 2 standing stones called the Devil's Clogs on nearby Tan-y-cefn farm.
Old Radnor church font cut from fifth stone of Four Stones group at edge of Kinnerton-Walton road. In 1994 a vast stone circle revealed from the air in the Radnor valley - probably defined by 1400 oaks, it covers 34 hectares but doesn't have a precise location !
Pilleth church has well behind that was resorted to by people with eye problems.
St. Harmon chuch first dedication in Wales, but he wasn't buried in Bedd Harmon near it. Two stone circles also near, though Cwm y Saeson only has two stones left out of 14 and that on Hendre Rhiw farm only one of 5. Dogs and people treated by sulfur spring on Temple Bar farm.
Whitton church lies in an earlier circular llan.

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