Martin M. Miles' photos with the keyword: Gors Fawr

Gors Fawr

06 Dec 2024 1 61
At a distance of 134 metres to the northeast of the Gors Fawr cromlech are a pair of standing stones - one of which is known locally as the 'Dreaming Stone' - that may have been physically linked to the circle by a stone avenue. Both of these outliers are taller than the circle stones with one measuring 1.9 metres and the other 1.7 metres in height. The pair are set 14 metres apart and could be said to form a southwest to northeast alignment which has lead some to suggest that they could point to the midsummer sunrise over the nearby hill of Foel Dyrch.

Gors Fawr

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The stone circle (cromlech) of about 22.0 m diameter consists of 16 small stones, the heights of which increase towards the south, but no stone is over a metre high. The circle dates from the Neolithic or Early Bronze Age. Its location near the Preseli Mountains, the source of the bluestones of Stonehenge. Despite the proximity of this source, only one of these stones was used in the creation of the circle, while the rest are made from local glacial boulders.