Bryn Cader faner
Coordinates: 52 ° 53 '53.6 " N , 4 ° 0' 41" W.
Bryn cader Faner is a round Bronze Age burial mound surrounded by a stone circle. It is located on the approximately 600 meter high hill "Moel Ysgyfarnogod" in Gwynedd in the county of Merionethshire ( Welsh Meirionnydd ), in the vicinity of the places Ffestiniog and Porthmadog in the north of Wales .
Bryn cader Faner is a round stone mound about 8.7 m wide and barely meters high , which is closely surrounded by 18 (originally about 30) pointed slate stelae that are about two meters long and inclined outwards . Half of the stones of the circle are missing on the sides. In the middle of the hill is a robbery shaft built in the 19th century. There are several simple stone mounds and settlement remains in the vicinity.
Carn Llechart in Glamorgan in southern Wales has certain similarities with Bryn Cader Faner. However, it does not consist of pointed, but rather wide stone slabs.
literature
- Vicki Cummings, Alasdair Whittle: Places of special virtue. Megaliths in the Neolithic landscapes of Wales. Oxbow, Oxford 2004, ISBN 1-84217-108-9 , p. 110.
Web links
- Bryn cader faner description and pictures stone pages, accessed April 13, 2017
- Carn Llechart, description and pictures Stonepages, accessed April 13, 2017