Bryn Gwyn Stones
The Bryn Gwyn Stones (also called Bryn Gwyn Stone Circle) stand about 280 meters southwest of the prehistoric enclosure or the hill fort Castell Bryn Gwyn , in the Afon Braint valley in the south of the island of Anglesey in Wales . The two Bryn Gwyn Stones, which are now used as goal posts, are among the tallest menhirs ( Welsh Maen hir - English standing stone ) in Wales. The larger one is almost 4.0 m high and wide, but comparatively thin.
In 1723 Henry Rowlands (1655-1723) described them as part of a stone circle of eight stones with a diameter of 12 to 16 m. A report from 1797 states that “ignorant peasants who assumed that money was hidden under them destroyed them.” Today only two adjacent stones, a flat menhir and a pillar, stand on a modern field border. An excavation in 2008 found three pits of the missing stones, two of which contained stone stumps that were consistent with Rowland's record. Excavations in 2010 identified the pits of three more removed stones, so that now seven of the eight expected locations of the original circle are known. The pit of a stone inside the circle shows that it was a "plate menhir".
literature
- Aubrey Burl: The stone circles of Britain, Ireland and Brittany. Yale University Press, New Haven CT et al. 2000, ISBN 0-300-08347-5 .
Web links
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- Description Engl. and picture and sketch of the re-excavation
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Coordinates: 53 ° 10 ′ 36.9 ″ N , 4 ° 18 ′ 8.7 ″ W.