This week’s #StandingStoneSunday megalith is the Is-coed stone near Ferryside in Carmarthenshire. I was travelling around drawing Bronze Age and Neolithic monuments with filmmaker Melvyn Williams and pre-historian Dewi Bowen a while back, drawing the sites that will feature in Dewi’s upcoming book based on the tale of Y Twrch Trwyth in the Mabinogion.
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The Red Janus
Back hunting wild megaliths today in Carmarthenshire high above the lovely village of Ferryside. Maen Llwyd is very unusual, made from limestone which has been pitted by erosion, but it has reddish globules in places as if the stone had been melted then stained. It’s also scattered with lichens in grey and a piercing sulphurContinue reading “The Red Janus”
The Stone In The Lower Wood
Continuing with thumbnail sketches from some of my original drawings, this is the Is Coed (Lower Wood) stone near Ferryside in Carmarthenshire. Ferryside is a gorgeous seaside village on a spectacular railway route from Swansea to Carmarthen that skips along right next to the coast for much of the journey. I’m doing the thumbnailContinue reading “The Stone In The Lower Wood”
Hidden In Plain View
As I’m continuing to work with Dewi Bowen, the archaeologist, I realise just how many ancestral stone monuments there are across the Welsh landscape. Apart for a few years in England, I’ve lived in Wales all my life and I never realised how ubiquitous these ancient monuments are. They seem reasonably well documented, on websitesContinue reading “Hidden In Plain View”
The Stone Outside The Village
A journey around Carmarthenshire today, to find, record and draw more Neolithic stone monuments, the first is the Is-coed Stone just outside the gorgeous seashore village of Ferryside. And now I’m tired and aching zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz I’m travelling around South West Wales with archaeologist Dewi Bowen who is researching his new book on Neolithic / Bronze AgeContinue reading “The Stone Outside The Village”
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