Moel Goedog West (I) Bronze Age cairn circle, Gwynedd, Wales, UK, looking NNE along the prehistoric trackway & coach road leading up from Harlech.
Moel Goedog West (I) Bronze Age cairn circle, Gwynedd, Wales, UK, looking NNE along the prehistoric trackway above the Dwyryd estuary. A ring of uprights set into the inner edge of a low stone bank encircle a levelled area used for the burial of cremated human remains directly into pits & in buried pots. The circle was excavated & restored in 1979 by Frances Lynch. There is a similar cairn circle (Moel Goedog East) on a hillside ledge just above the track. The Bronze Age trackway runs up from the coast at Llanbedr near Harlech into the mountains N of the Rhinog range to near Trawsfynydd. The route is liberally marked by cairns & standing stones. It became a coach road & continued to be the main road until the lowland marshes were drained at the start of the C19th. This route was used by Geraldus Cambrensis on his journey through Wales.
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Location: Moel Goedog West Cairn Circle, Eisingrug, Harlech, Gwynedd, Wales, UK
Photo credit: © Mick Sharp / Alamy / Afripics
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