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Cefn Gwernffrwd Complex Stone Circle Image © nix stewart Also known as: Pen-y-Rhaglen Complex Nearest Town: Llanwrtyd Wells (14km E) OS Ref (GB):     SN737493 / Sheets: 146, 147 Latitude: 52° 7' 37.5" N Longitude:     3° 50' 42.86" W Added by tuesday Images (5) Fieldnotes (1) 0 discussions Start a topic Show  |  Hide Web searches for Cefn Gwernffrwd Complex Flash Earth Flickr Google Google Images The Megalithic Portal Bing Stone Pages Streetmap.co.uk Wikipedia

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The site is hidden deep within a plantation on a ridge on what would have been open moorland. The stones are half buried. One was probably much higher but is shattered by frost. There is additional stone set within the circle. How did something so delicate survive so long? It is almost impossible to photograph the small stones in the long grass. Some are so loose you could pluck them like teeth with one hand. Morgan and Ruggles examined this whole complex for astronomical significance in the seventies and Burl briefly became very excited about it but really, you would have to be a gnome to be able to use these stones for astronomical observation (I'm not discounting that possibility by the way - there are so many fly agarics around here and it feels so strange that this truly must be a fairy circle) - what could you do here but meet and dance? DIMENSIONS: 20 stones of average height 0.4m in a diameter of 24.5m Comments (0)  |  Add a comment  |  Permalink

Posted by tuesday 9th October 2006ce Edited 9th October 2006ce

Cefn Gwernffrwd (Stone Row / Alignment) — Images (click to view fullsize)

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Cefn Gwernffrwd (Stone Row / Alignment) — Fieldnotes

The stones lie on a line tangential to the ring cairn and are roughly aligned in the directions of the midwinter setting or midsummer rising sun DIMENSIONS: 3 stones av. 0.5m(h), 0.4m(w), 0.4m(d). 2.0m and 0.4m apart Comments (0)  |  Add a comment  |  Permalink

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Cefn Gwenffrwd (Round Barrow(s)) — Images

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Cefn Gwenffrwd (Round Barrow(s)) — Fieldnotes

This little barrow competes the complex of circle, ring and alignment. It has a small depression in the top which may be a sign of previous excavation DIMENSIONS: 11m(diameter), 1.5m(h) Comments (0)  |  Add a comment  |  Permalink

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Cefn Gwernffrwd (Cairn(s)) — Fieldnotes

The cairn is buried and mainly hidden under the long grass and almost impossible to photograph although you can feel it under foot. Two crescent of stones remain. On one lies the quartz boulder thought to have possibly been a standing menhir Comments (0)  |  Add a comment  |  Permalink

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Cefn Gwernffrwd (Cairn(s)) — Images

Posted by tuesday 9th October 2006ce