Moel Goedog West (I) excavated & restored Bronze Age cairn circle, Gwynedd, Wales, UK, looking NW over the Dwyryd & Glaslyn estuary to Porthmadog.
Moel Goedog West (I) Bronze Age cairn circle, Gwynedd, Wales, UK, looking NW over the Dwyryd & Glaslyn estuary to Porthmadog. 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. The circle is just below a prehistoric trackway & 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.
Size: 3786px × 5009px
Location: Moel Goedog East Cairn Circle, Eisingrug, Harlech, Gwynedd, Wales, UK
Photo credit: © Mick Sharp / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
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