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Imbolc

Imbolc is an important holiday in the Pagan calendar . Beginning at sundown today the first of February continuing all day tomorrow . This is the day our ancestors celebrated Winter's passing , the beginning of Spring with the rebirth of the sun ,

Tinkinswood Burial Chamber Castell Carreg

            Tinkinswood  Burial Chamber    (map ref STO9227331)

Mentioned this structure in a previous post . 6,000 year old  Dolmen located near Barry , South Wales . . The massive  capstone weighs 40 tonnes .

Hen Dre'r Mynydd Rhigos Mountain Road

Iron Age Settlement and Roman Settlement later on . Top of the Rhigos across the road from picnic area car park..

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Avebury Stone Circle

Visited Sept 2016 .

Silbury Hill

 Silbury Hill .

  

Silbury Hill  . Massive mound was constructed around  2350 bc  . Builders sculpted the hill using picks made from deer antler .Would have loved to walked to the 40 metres from bottom to top . Sign said nay ! Silbury Hill  the largest prehistoric man made  mound in  Europe .

MAEN LLIA

Massive standing stone  , 12 feet high , 9 feet wide  set on moorland at the top of the Llia Valley adjacent to Sarn Helen  , Brecon National Park  ( SN824192) . 

Stone is about 5,000 years old ,