[Stones] Pabell Llywarch Hen - Burl Look Up
Shropshire Traveller
thehermitoftillywhim at tiscali.co.uk
Sat Feb 24 16:56:56 GMT 2007
Nothing there to see. Just fields. I'll put up a picture sometime of the
stone not there... :o)
My translation comes from the Shropshire County Archaeologist, who gives
such meaning to Carreg y Big near Oswestry
http://www.megalithic.co.uk/article.php?sid=10077
Cheers,
Tim.
Cerridwen Connelly wrote:
> "Carreg y Big"...
>
> More likely this means "stone shaped like a beak" (or spout - as on a jug)
> from "pig" the Welsh word for the aforementioned words, which mutates (don't
> ask!) to "big" under a variety of grammatical circumstances.
>
> Carreg y Fawr would be "the big stone".
>
> Hwyl,
>
> Cerri
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