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John Michell There are comparatively few wellknown stone circles in Wales and
of those that still exist, the stones are generally quite small in size, being usually
around 3 feet to 4 feet 6 inches in height. Most of the sites are in remote ...
Author: Chris Barber
Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN: 9781445658681
Category: Photography
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DOWNLOAD & READParish of St David's. In a field known on the 1 887-1906 0.8. 6” map as Parc yr
Allor is a single standing stone which may be the last remains of a burial
chamber said to have been there and to have been destroyed in 1 850. (See
RCAM Pembt ...
Author: Glyn E. Daniel
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9781107697621
Category: Social Science
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DOWNLOAD & READMany standing stones are presumed to be prehistoric, yet intrinsically they are
almost impossible to date. Large stones, to several metres in height, are likely to
be Bronze Age, but Carreg Waun Llech standing stone, Brecknocks.
Author: David M. Browne
Publisher: Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales
ISBN: 9781871184266
Category: Social Science
Page: 148
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DOWNLOAD & READThis is strongly suggested when the remains form part of a range of other
deposits although other , individual burials may have ritual aspects ... A number
of these strands of behaviour can , perhaps , be recognised on standing stone
sites .
Author: George Williams
Publisher: British Archaeological Reports Limited
ISBN: UOM:39015049763330
Category: Social Science
Page: 131
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DOWNLOAD & READIV Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments and
Constructions in Wales and Monmouthshire ... Five supporters remain, four being
prostrate and one leaning slightly over. ... 594) are two other prostrate stones, in
line with those still standing; no remembrance or tradition exists that they have
ever been ...
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Publisher: Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales
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Category: Social Science
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DOWNLOAD & READHARMON. have been an extremely fine cairn—only the grass-grown and still
undisturbed base stones, 200 feet in circumference, and about two feet high. The
fiat ... The parish boundary fence has been carried over it, the larger part of the
base being in St. Harmon. ... The one yet standing is 70 inches out of the ground,
60 inches broad 011 the north and south faces ; like its prostrate companion it
has no ...
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DOWNLOAD & READWere there not so many Druidical remains scattered up and down this inand , we
might not wonder at these various fancies ... One hundred and forty stones , (
though the vulgar ridiculously fupposed they never could be justly counted ) are ...
Author: Henry Boswell
Publisher:
ISBN: NYPL:33433004873968
Category: England
Page: 600
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DOWNLOAD & READIt shows the tallest standing stone in the circle , which is said to be 9 feet high ,
and other large stones and numerous smaller ... 1981 ) , p.347 , which says there
were thirty stones of which ten still remain standing , some as much as 1.8m high
.
Author: Chris Barber
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ISBN: PSU:000016347885
Category: Cromlechs
Page: 192
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DOWNLOAD & READ... never was there and never will there be such workmanship which will not
perish while the day and wave continue ! ... This was still more effectually done
by the addition of epitaphs and inscriptions upon the memorial stones , and the
study ...
Author: John Obadiah Westwood
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ISBN: OXFORD:591043996
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DOWNLOAD & READ... and express a different letter , if looked at from the other ; and that , unless
there be some sign , as in old Ogham there never ... In such situations an Ogham
legend generally begins from below on that angle of the stone to the left hand of
the ...
Author: Samuel Ferguson
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ISBN: UOM:39015046439553
Category: Inscriptions
Page: 164
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DOWNLOAD & READThe barrows which give evidence of extermination are no doubt the most recent :
they contain more elaborate remains ... Age that the worship of stone monuments
began -- the Meini Hirion or Standing Stones ( which may be of almost any age ...
Author: William R. Owen
Publisher:
ISBN: HARVARD:32044080765266
Category: Festivals
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DOWNLOAD & READing it to Pont Newydd , which we cross , and then turn left , soon cross another
bridge on the left , and follow a path which runs , not far from the brook , to the fall
. [ This walk might easily be united with the ascent of Carreg Fawr , by keeping on
over the hill and turning to the right by the ... The standing stone is somewhere
about sixteen feet round , and nine feet high ; the other of the “ two stones ” ( Deu
...
Author: Askew Roberts
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ISBN: UIUC:30112078835482
Category: Aberystwyth (Wales)
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DOWNLOAD & READSeveral streets and lanes , some of them still containing entire houses , may be
traced by foundations and ruinated ... By the church porch is a large monumental
stone , placed there by Edward Williams , the Welsh bard , who has himself ...
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ISBN: BSB:BSB10479628
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DOWNLOAD & READSeveral streets and lanes , some of them still containing entire houses , may be
traced by foundations and ruinated ... By the church porch is a large monumental
stone , placed there by Edward Williams , the Welsh bard , who has himself ...
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DOWNLOAD & READThe standing - stone near Sowerby , not far from Halifax in Yorkshire , is a
remarkable stone of memorial : so likewise is the one near Capel Kerig in ... At
Rudstone in the east riding of Yorkshire is a still more extraordinary one 24 feet
high , undoubtedly British . ... It may be necessary to caution the tourist , that in
many counties , particularly in Wales , where stone is abundant and timber
scarce , pillars very ...
Author: Thomas Walford
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ISBN: OXFORD:591023142
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DOWNLOAD & READ... to four houses that covered this relic of antiquity ; but when , or by whom this
old edifice was founded could not be traced . ... and under the house where the
fire , in 1765 , was supposed to have begun , there was another stone building
thirty ...
Author: Thomas Hood
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ISBN: STANFORD:36105118154157
Category: Architecture
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DOWNLOAD & READIt is becoming almost customary for reviewers to deplore the price of books ;
certainly Settlement and Society in Wales is ... millennium bc origin for
monuments incorporating standing stones may need to be reformulated , if not
yet dismissed .
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ISBN: UCLA:L0070828470
Category: Carmarthenshire (Wales)
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DOWNLOAD & READIntroduction South and West Wales offer an immense variety of breathtaking
scenery from valleys and gorges to moorland ... Wales have yielded evidence of
Stone Age man , one being the Hoyle's Mouth Cave near Tenby where many flint
... They left behind communal tombs and Parc le Breos on Gower is an interesting
example . ... Another monument belonging to this period is the standing stone .
Author: Dorothy Hamilton
Publisher: Sigma Press
ISBN: 1850587647
Category: Tearooms
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DOWNLOAD & READOn the quayside the fishermen still land their catches and, from here, pleasure
boat trips can also be taken. Nearby, in ... Conwy Valley devised by Active
Snowdonia, passes many impressive cromlechs and standing stones. The route
also ...
Author: Joanna Billing
Publisher: Travel Publishing Ltd
ISBN: 190443407X
Category: Travel
Page: 356
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DOWNLOAD & READ... by the inhabitants is the want of water in dry summers , when it is sometimes so
dear , as to be sold for eighteen pence a ... blue stones found hereabouts . The
castle , of which we have given a view , is very ancient , and was of great strength
, as appears from what remains , most of the walls being still standing ; it is ...
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