Tafarn-y-Bwlch Stones

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The Tafarn-y-Bwlch Stones (also known as Waun Mawn Stones) are west of the hamlet of Tafarn-y-Bwlch, on an old pass through the Preseli Hills near Brynberian in Pembrokeshire in Wales .

The stone pair is part of the Talfarn-y-Bwlch complex, which includes the Troed y rhiw stone series and the Waun Mawn North and Northeast menhirs , which may be common remnants of the Waun Mawn stone circle .

The two menhirs of the pair of stones, each 1.3 m high, inclined to the north , were also regarded as the remains of a burial chamber. The eastern stone is pointed and the western one is rounded. It is unusual to find a pair of stones only three feet apart.

At the abandoned Talfarn y Bwlch Farm lie hundreds of huge, glacial smoothed and faceted boulders. Almost all of them are dolerites and gabbros , some of which weigh 20 tons.

The Tafarn-y-Bwlch Stones are protected as a Scheduled Monument .

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Coordinates: 51 ° 58 ′ 7.8 "  N , 4 ° 47 ′ 31.2"  W.