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Bro Deirian, CLYNDERWEN, SA66 7XF

The Cross Inn, Glandy Cross.

The pub faces the road intersection that the village is named for: on the right is the A478 old turnpike route heading towards Cardigan, left the minor road to Mynachclogddu. Roads also run west and east at this point. Although this is on the surface this looks a somewhat dull, flat landscape it has important prehistoric and historic roots: there is a multiplicity of Neolithic and Bronze Age remains in the area still visible, and in the Middle Ages the land (much of it owned by the Cistercians at Whitland Abbey) was held under Welsh systems of tenure and farmed communally. "Sixteenth-century leases make it clear that tenants were practising common pasturage and the survival of arian y mynydd or 'mountain silver', a payment for grazing rights, with a diversity of rents, in both cash, kind and service, suggests that they correspond with earlier villein obligations, when most of the tenants were also bound to do boon work for the monastery." Some of the moorland here remained unenclosed until the C19. See Archaeology in Wales http://www.cambria.org.uk/HLC/Preseli/area/area265.htm

A view looking south along the minor road from Mynachlog-ddu as it approaches the junction with the A478 road at Glandy Cross.

Scant remains of Bronze Age Stone Circle.

Gweddillion cylch cerrig a chlawdd o'r enw Meini Gwyr. Mae'r safle yn dyddio o'r Oes Neolithig i'r Oes Efydd Cynnar (c.2000CC). Yn affodus dau faen yn unig sy wedi goroesi er bod y clawdd i'w weld o hyd. Pan ymwelodd yr hynafieithydd enwog Edward Lhuyd â'r safle yn 1695 gwelodd cylch yn cynnwys 15 o feini a amrywient rhwng 3 troedfedd i 6 troedfedd o ddaldra. Mae'n druenu mawr bod safle pwysig a oroesodd am 4,000 o flynyddoedd wedi'i ysbeilio am ei garreg yn fwy diweddar. The remains of Meini Gwyr (trans. slanting stones), an embanked stone circle which dates from the Neolithic to the Early Bronze Age (c.2000BC). Unfortunately, only two stones remain but the circular embankment is still discernible. When famous antiquarian Edward Lhuyd visited the site in 1695 he saw 15 stones ranging in height from 3 ft to 6 ft. It's such a shame that an important site which had survived for 4,000 years was plundered for its stone in more recent times.

Gweddillion cylch cerrig a chlawdd o'r enw Meini Gwyr. Mae'r safle yn dyddio o'r Oes Neolithig i'r Oes Efydd Cynnar (c.2000CC). Yn affodus dau faen yn unig sy wedi goroesi er bod y clawdd i'w weld o hyd. Pan ymwelodd yr hynafieithydd enwog Edward Lhuyd â'r safle yn 1695 gwelodd cylch yn cynnwys 15 o feini a amrywient rhwng 3 troedfedd i 6 troedfedd o ddaldra. Mae'n druenu mawr bod safle pwysig a oroesodd am 4,000 o flynyddoedd wedi'i ysbeilio am ei garreg yn fwy diweddar. The remains of Meini Gwyr (trans. slanting stones), an embanked stone circle which dates from the Neolithic to the Early Bronze Age (c.2000BC). Unfortunately, only two stones remain but the circular embankment is still discernible. When famous antiquarian Edward Lhuyd visited the site in 1695 he saw 15 stones ranging in height from 3 ft to 6 ft. It's such a shame that an important site which had survived for 4,000 years was plundered for its stone in more recent times.