Dinton Castle
In 2012 the folly known as Dinton Castle was sold at auction and some newspapers (including the Daily Mail and
Hills, mounds and burial sites. Places which have a timeless allure. Such places can be seen and regarded as mythically liminal, a place that it is not a place. A place outside of time. A place where the living freely walk with the dead. Barrows are just such places. Gwern Einion is a representative cromlech, found on Gwern Einion Farm in the district of Llanfair, Meirionnydd. It has been damaged over the centuries, the burial chamber has historically been used as a shed, and the cairn has been robbed of its stone to build dry stone walls. It has actually been incorporated into a dry stone wall of the garden of a now derelict cottage on the farm. This is probably one of the most impressive Bronze Age cairn remains in Wales. It has 18 upright slender jagged pillars giving the sense of a coronet, and has a footprint diameter of 8.7 metres. It is supposed that the cairn was used to intern the dead, and it has been damaged by treasure hunters over the years, with the centre of the cairn being dug out. This is the remains of the westerly ring cairn (a Neolithic burial covered with stones); one of a pair situated close together in the Moel Goedog ancient monument complex situated the hills above Harlech close to Moel Goedog hillfort. This is the remains of the easterly ring cairn (a Neolithic burial covered with stones); one of a pair situated close together in the Moel Goedog ancient monument complex situated the hills above Harlech close to Moel Goedog hillfort. Bedd Gorfal is also known as the Harlech stone circle and is situated close to the ancient Fonlief Hir track way. There are eight stones in the four metre diameter circle, five of them are easily visible and three are small and easily overlooked. The tallest stone is only about one metre tall, and it is split. In ‘Rude Stone Monuments In All Countries, Their Age And Uses’ (1872) (which was later retitled ‘Old Stone Monuments’), James Fergusson(1808-1886) gives the following description of Mayborough Henge. The remains of the Neolithic (4000-2000BC) Bodowyr Burial Chamber, consist of a capstone (seven feet by six feet) resting upon three uprights (making a Cromlech). Located northwest of the village of Brynsiencyn, in a field, the chamber is fenced off. Access is via the B4419 near Llangaffo and a CADW signpost indicates the location. The following article by Nick Dermody about the Trefal Stone appeared on the BBC Wales website on 24 May 2012. ‘Archaeologists are to exhume and analyse human bones found under a prehistoric monument only recently identified as a burial site cap.
The Undreamed Region: Barrows In Folklore & Archaeology
Gwern Einion
Bryn Cader Faner
Moel Goedog, West (Ring Cairn)
Moel Goedog, East (Ring Cairn)
Bedd Gorfal
Mayburgh Henge (aka Mayborough Henge)
Bodowyr Burial Chamber
Trefal Stone
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