Mid Wales
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Ogof Llewelyn – Llewelyn’s cave
Local legend says that this cave in the small village of Aberedw, Wales is the place where Llywelyn ap Gruffydd, the last Prince of an independent Wales, spent his final night in hiding before being killed. There is another story that says he asked a local blacksmith to put the shoes on his horse to…
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Trecastle (Y Pigwn) Circles
Bronze Age stone circles near the village of Trecastle, situated on the edge of Parc Cenedlaethol Bannau Brycheiniog in Powys, Wales. The mountain is known for its Roman remains, including marching camps and a Roman road. There are also the remains of Iron Age structures, stone alignments as well as the Bronze Age stones circles.…
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Waen Llechi Standing Stone
Situated within Bannau Brycheiniog (Brecon Beacons National Parc) in Powys, Wales. Alternative names: Waun Leuci, Waun Lleuci, Fforest Fawr. This stone boasts stunning views of the Tawe Valley. It’s one of many prehistoric sites dotted about this landscape. We will return to explore the other sites soon and hopefully get some drone shots. It is…
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Ysbyty Cynfyn – Ceredigion, Wales
St Johns church in the tiny village of Ysbyty Cynfyn is curiously built upon an ancient site – perhaps an embanked stone circle, of which some huge stones remain. Today, this villages comprises of a church and farm. The form of the medieval church which is said to have been here prior is not known.…
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Dol y Gamfa Stone Circle
This is a Bronze Age cairn-circle in Ceredigion, Wales.CADW/Coflein’s description of the stones at Dolgamfa is as follows: “One of the finest small Bronze Age cairn-circles in north Ceredigion. Rather than being a true stone circle, the monument would originally have been a cairn or mound of stones encircled by a ring of upright stones.…
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Croes-llechau, Bronllys, Wales.
Sadly this cromlech is now in ruin, but we do have an account from 1809 by Theophilus Jones in the ‘History of the County of Brecknock volume 2’: “In a field called Croeslechau about two miles eastward of this town or village [Talgarth] but in the parish of Bronllys and on a farm called Bryn-y-groes,…
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