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  1. Llawenydd mawr ym Maenan yr wythnos yma. Croesasom ni y gwenoliaid yn ôl ar ddydd Mercher 7fed Ebrill.
    Much happiness in Maenan this week. We welcomed the swallows back on Wednesday 7th April.
    #Maenan #gogleddcymru #Cymru #gwenoliaid #northwales #wales #swallows

  2. A North Walian oddity for today's #StandingStoneSunday

    Parc Bach is either the remains of a prehistoric chambered tomb with some modern additions, or a weird 'druidical folly'. Set in peaceful woods on the shore of Llyn Padarn, close to Castell Dolbadarn. Either way, it's a lovely setting.

    Visited June 2012 at the start of a walk up Yr Wyddfa.

    #GogleddCymru #YrWyddfa #Snowdon

  3. Another North-Walian obscurity for #StandingStoneSunday - Cwm Eigiau (possible) chambered tomb.

    Speculatively identified as the remains of a Neolithic chambered tomb, nestled in Cwm Eigiau beneath the high ridges of Y Carneddau mountains.

    Visited May 2012 on descent from Carnedd Llewelyn and Pen yr Helgi-Du.

    #Carneddau #Neolithic #GogleddCymru

  4. A North Walian obscurity for today's #StandingStoneSunday

    Clogwyn-yr-Eryr (possible) stone row, high on a ridge in the foothills of Y Carneddau mountains. There are views to Hafodygorswen cairn circle in the valley, Pen-y-Gaer Iron Age hillfort and numerous high level Bronze Age cairns on the mountains. The tallest stone has drill holes and has been reused as a gate post at some time.

    Passed on my way up to Carnedd Llewelyn, May 2012.

    #Carneddau #BronzeAge #GogleddCymru #Wales

  5. One of my very favourite sites for today's #StandingStoneSunday

    Moel ty Uchaf ('Highest House on the Bare Hill') is a superb cairn circle set in an elevated position on the foothills of Y Berwyn mountain range above Llandrillo. It has extensive views across the Dee towards all the main mountain ranges of North Wales from Aranau to Y Carneddau.

    This visit May 2012 on my way up to Cadair Bronwen.

    #TheModernAntiquarian #BronzeAge #Berwynnau #GogleddCymru #Wales

  6. Autumn in the northern foothills of the Carneddau mountains, North Wales.

    #Wales #Carneddau #GogleddCymru

  7. A rainy, windy day outside, and a rainy day offering for today's #StandingStoneSunday

    Waun Fach standing stone, a chunky, tapering stone in a fairly low-lying area not far from the coast near the village of Llanegryn, in the Dysynni valley, Gwynedd.

    Visited in the rain, September 2011. Portrait, may need a click.

    #StandingStone #GogleddCymru #Tywyn

  8. The beautiful Conwy valley for today's #StandingStoneSunday offering.

    Hendre Waelod (aka Allor Molloch) chambered tomb, with a three feet thick capstone and views across the river.

    Visited August 2011.

    #Neolithic #Conwy #GogleddCymru

  9. Still on Great Orme for today's #StandingStoneSunday

    Lletyr Filiast ('Lair Of the Greyhound Bitch') is a Neolithic chambered tomb. It consists of a ruined chamber and a long mound or cairn. It's close to the Bronze Age copper mines.

    This visit August 2011.

    #Neolithic #GogleddCymru #Llandudno

  10. The Great Orme for today's #StandingStoneSunday - this is Hwylfa’r Ceirw ('High Road of the Deer'), a double stone row of mostly small stones, leading downhill from a square enclosure. Double rows are a rarity in Wales, much more commonly found on Dartmoor.

    The Orme is a headland of predominantly limestone, and has some great prehistoric monuments, including the wonderful mines.

    This visit August 2011. Portrait, may need a click.

    #GogleddCymru #GreatOrme

  11. The enigmatic (but prosaically named) Monument 280, near Y Meini Hirion above Penmaenmawr for #StandingStoneSunday.

    From some angles it looks like a circle and there is an arc of stones like those of a large kerbed cairn, from others the uprights appear to form a straight stone row, while some people might just describe it as a jumble of old stones.

    This visit in July 2011.

    #StandingStones #Penmaenmawr #GogleddCymru

  12. Gogledd Cymru and the wonderful megaliths around Tal y Fan for today's #StandingStoneSunday. Maen Crwn is a solitary standing stone and the first encountered if visiting these sites from Penmaenmawr.

    It's a large, rounded boulder of a stone, which has the feel of an on-the-way to somewhere marker, guiding the visitor upwards to the megalithic complex above.

    This visit in glorious weather, July 2011.

    #StandingStone #GogleddCymru #Penmaenmawr ##Defaidodon

  13. A fantastic spell of autumn sunshine this afternoon, visiting some of the lesser-known Bronze Age sites on the ridge between Afon Gyrach and Afon Conwy, part of the multiplicity of sites that encircle Tal y Fan; kerbed cairn, two ring cairns, a cist and a stone circle.

    Lunch at Hafodty stone circle overlooking the lovely Conwy valley, back in town in time for coffee and cake. Happy days.

    #StoneCircle #Conwy #BronzeAge #Cymru #GogleddCymru

  14. A quick bit of #Defaidodon action for you this evening. A couple of sheep give scale to Big Scenery.

    Tyrrau Mawr and Craig-y-Llyn, two of the satellite peaks of Cader Idris, both sporting fine Bronze Age cairns, rising above Llyn Cyri. From a wonderful walk from Abermaw (Barmouth) this time last year.

    #CaderIdris #CadairIdris #GogleddCymru #Mountains #BronzeAge

  15. Longing to get back to North Wales. This is a view from last September, looking up the Mawddach estuary from Ffridd Gorllwyn (on 'the Panorama Walk') towards the distant Aranau on the right. Y Rhinogydd rise on the left, Diffwys a shapely cone from this angle.

    #GogleddCymru #YRhinogydd #Aranau #Mountains #Abermaw

  16. Longing to get back to North Wales. This is a view from last September, looking up the Mawddach estuary from Ffridd Gorllwyn (on 'the Panorama Walk') towards the distant Aranau on the right. Y Rhinogydd rise on the left, Diffwys a shapely cone from this angle.

    #GogleddCymru #YRhinogydd #Aranau #Mountains #Abermaw

  17. Longing to get back to North Wales. This is a view from last September, looking up the Mawddach estuary from Ffridd Gorllwyn (on 'the Panorama Walk') towards the distant Aranau on the right. Y Rhinogydd rise on the left, Diffwys a shapely cone from this angle.

    #GogleddCymru #YRhinogydd #Aranau #Mountains #Abermaw

  18. Longing to get back to North Wales. This is a view from last September, looking up the Mawddach estuary from Ffridd Gorllwyn (on 'the Panorama Walk') towards the distant Aranau on the right. Y Rhinogydd rise on the left, Diffwys a shapely cone from this angle.

    #GogleddCymru #YRhinogydd #Aranau #Mountains #Abermaw

  19. Longing to get back to North Wales. This is a view from last September, looking up the Mawddach estuary from Ffridd Gorllwyn (on 'the Panorama Walk') towards the distant Aranau on the right. Y Rhinogydd rise on the left, Diffwys a shapely cone from this angle.

    #GogleddCymru #YRhinogydd #Aranau #Mountains #Abermaw