Farmland around the Obelisk
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Farmland around the Obelisk
Image: © David Medcalf Taken: 21 Aug 2006
On the land of Rhual farm. A note in a Victoria Welsh Society Newsletter, by Trevor Lloyd Jones, says: "In 1951 the National Eisteddfod was held on a field in Maesgarmon. Up the hill from where the Eisteddfod occurred there is an obelisk. The Latin inscription on this ancient monument tells of a battle fought in A.D. 420 between the local people under Saint Germanus and the heathen Picts and Saxons. The locals were greatly outnumbered but Germanus, knowing that sounds echoed and echoed in this place, gave the signal for his followers to rise and face the enemy with a howling cry of Hallelujah, where upon the attacking forces fled in alarm! "
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Image Location
Latitude
53.172801
Longitude
-3.165381