Harold's Stones
The Harold's Stones (also called Trellech, Triligh or Trelleck Stones) near Trellech in Monmouthshire , southeast Welsh, are a north-east-south-west oriented, approximately 12.0 m long row of stones consisting of three menhirs ( English standing stones) and protected as a Scheduled Monument .
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The village of Trellech (tri = three, Llech = flat stone) takes its name from the three stones in a field near the road from Monmouth to Chepstow. They are known locally as the "Harolds Stones" as they were supposedly built by Harold, the last of the Saxon kings, in memory of his victory over the British in 1063. Another tradition has it that the three stones mark the place where three chiefs fell fighting a Roman Harold who defeated the Welsh at Gwent . According to a third legend, the stones were hurled here by the mythical giant Jack O'Kent from Mount Ysgyryd Fawr, 23 km away .
The first reference to the stones comes from Edward Llwyd , who mentions them in his Parochialia in 1689. That same year, the Harolds Stones were carved on a remarkable sundial that is now in St Nicholas Church in Trellech. The stones made of conglomerate ( pudding stone ) are inclined in different directions. The stones are 2.7, 3.7 and 4.6 m high. The largest stone is the southernmost and the middle one has two large bowls on the south side.
There is a sacred spring in Trellech .
literature
- Homer Sykes: Mysterious Britain - Fact and Folklore George Weidenfeld & Nicolson Ltd. 1993 ISBN 0-297-83196-8 p. 119
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Ancient Monuments: Harold's Stones, Standing Stones. Retrieved March 21, 2014 .
Coordinates: 51 ° 44 ′ 32.3 " N , 2 ° 43 ′ 31" W.