Penrhos Feilw
The stone pair of Penrhos Feilw is located about southwest of the ferry terminal of Holyhead on Holy Island which belongs to Anglesey in Wales . About the Menhirpaar ( English Standing Stones ) behind the farmhouse Plas Meilw there is little information.
You stand on a small plateau between low hills overlooking the bay of Porth Dafarch. To the northwest, just over two kilometers away, is Holyhead Mountain , which dominates the skyline. The row of stones is not aligned with this striking mountain. The stones were probably erected during the Bronze Age . Although they are about ten feet high and three feet wide at their base, they are no more than eight inches thick and are reminiscent of the Giant's Grave menhirs in Cumbria .
The stones are oriented southwest-northeast and despite speculation that they are the remainder of a stone circle, for which there is no evidence, there is a story that a stone box once stood with them, in which bones, arrowheads and a spear were found. But there is no evidence that this local lore has any real core.
literature
- Peter Sager: Wales. Literature and politics, industry and landscape . DuMont, Cologne 1992, ISBN 3-7701-1407-8 .
- Homer Sykes: Mysterious Britain - Fact and Folklore George Weidenfeld & Nicolson Ltd. 1993 ISBN 0-297-83196-8 p. 116
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Coordinates: 53 ° 17 ′ 44.6 " N , 4 ° 39 ′ 42.5" W.