Upper Lodge Stones

Nearest town:
Milford Haven (9km ESE)
OS reference:
SM861143
OS sheet:
157
Latitude:
51° 47' 9.22 N
Longitude:
5° 6' 5.99 W
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Image of Upper Lodge Stones (Standing Stones) by thesweetcheat

Time to get the shears out before they disappear completely.

Image credit: A. Brookes (24.7.2014)
thesweetcheat
thesweetcheat Sep 28, 2014
Image of Upper Lodge Stones (Standing Stones) by thesweetcheat

The northern stone is almost completely buried under the ivy.

Image credit: A. Brookes (24.7.2014)
thesweetcheat
thesweetcheat Sep 28, 2014
Image of Upper Lodge Stones (Standing Stones) by thesweetcheat

The southern stone, more overgrown than when Kammer visited.

Image credit: A. Brookes (24.7.2014)
thesweetcheat
thesweetcheat Sep 28, 2014
Image of Upper Lodge Stones (Standing Stones) by thesweetcheat

The stones are set into the wall/hedge next to the road. Only the southern of the two is apparent on approach.

Image credit: A. Brookes (24.7.2014)
thesweetcheat
thesweetcheat Sep 28, 2014
Image of Upper Lodge Stones (Standing Stones) by Kammer

Taken 17th April 2003: A close-up of the obvious stone. If there is another one (and that seems to be the implication) it may be on the other side of the bank in the garden of the white house.

Image credit: Simon Marshall
Kammer
Kammer May 14, 2003
Image of Upper Lodge Stones (Standing Stones) by Kammer

Taken 17th April 2003: This stone is right next to the road as you enter Broad Haven. There aren’t many angles you can photograph it from, and as luck would have it the sun was in the wrong place.

Image credit: Simon Marshall
Kammer
Kammer May 14, 2003

Articles

Upper Lodge Stones

thesweetcheat
thesweetcheat Sep 28, 2014

Visited 24 July 2014.

It’s a steepish walk up the road from Broadhaven on such a hot day. There are two stones visible, buried in the wall/hedge next to the road. Ivy is taking its inexorable grip over both of them, a chopping would be beneficial.

Assuming the stones go down to road surface level (or further), they’re blooming tall, both well over 6 feet. The setting obviously doesn’t make for the best of ambience, but is visible for a long way south, from the seafront at Broadhaven. Presumably they have a relationship with the nearby Harold Stone, although the two sites are not intervisible. If they ever were part of a stone circle, they would be in a pretty atypical position for one.

Upper Lodge Stones

Kammer
Kammer May 15, 2003

Visited 17th April 2003: After the Harold Stone this was a bit disappointing. We would never have known the stone was there just by passing, because it’s largely embedded in the hedge bank. It was the lady from the bungalow by the Harold Stone that told us about it.

Since the visit I’ve had a quick look at the site on the NMRW, and it’s listed by different organisations in different ways. I’m pretty sure there are more stones we missed when we were there, because the site is described as standing stones (by Cadw), a stone row (by the RCAHMW), and a possible stone circle (by Cambria Archaeology). That’s assuming that we’re all talking about the same site.

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