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Druid’s Circle (also called Meini Hirion or Y Meini Hirion) is the name of a stone circle south of Penmaenmawr, west of Conwy in the north of Wales, which strongly reminds of Lakeland circles like Swinside. Meini Hirion – Welsh for “long stones” – is also the name of two, standing to the west of the A496 at Llanbedr in Gwynedd menhirs<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The stone circle, originally made up of 30 stones and excavated by W. E. Griffiths in 1950, lies about 420 m high in the marshes above Colwyn Bay. 11 stones are preserved and stand within a low wall of about 35 m in diameter. The 23 m ring is not a perfect circle, but slightly flattened on the northeast side, where a path runs. Two portal stones are facing south.<\/p>\n

Although the proximity to the Graig Lwyd Beil-Schlagplatz, which is about 400 m away, indicates an early date for construction, it is in contradiction to the Bronze Age finds, which could be secondary uses of the district. A ruined stone circle (Circle 278) lies to the west, a ruined hilltop settlement in the southwest and a small cairn on the nearby hill Tal-y-Fan.<\/p>\n

A stone of a stone box was found, with stones scattered unevenly around it, including quartz. Inside the box was a jar containing the burnt bones of a child between the ages of ten and twelve. A second cremation was found in a pit. A simple vessel contained the burned bones of a child between the ages of eleven and thirteen, accompanied by a small bronze knife.<\/p>\n

A preliminary dating was on 1450-1400 BC. Made in the Bronze Age, but the circle can be much older (3000 BC)<\/p>\n

Legends are associated with two stones. The victim’s stone stands to the east and has a curved natural ledge at the top. Legend has it that the children who were killed here during the ceremonies within the ring came here to death.<\/p>\n

On the west side is the so-called deity. The stone has an anthropomorphic appearance, similar to a human figure with a hood and looks directly into the center of the circle. According to legend, this stone is slain anyone who swear nearby. It is claimed that a skeptic visited the district at night to test the testimony. His body was found the next day at the foot of the deity stone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"template":"","protoplace-type":[],"class_list":["post-400","protoplace","type-protoplace","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.undenk.info\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/protoplace\/400","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.undenk.info\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/protoplace"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.undenk.info\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/protoplace"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.undenk.info\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.undenk.info\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"protoplace-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.undenk.info\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/protoplace-type?post=400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}