[Stones] Barclodiad y gawres

[Ric]

Hi Thelma,

you won't find a great deal about Bedd Goronwy on the
web, it is a new discovery since computers have been
around: the barrow - a locally revered site (no one
would cut hay there) - had one of those mobile pine
forests ~ now you see it - now you don't ~ dumped on
top of it, by the Forestry Commission, years ago: even
the folks at the farm house lost track of where the
mound was: then they moved too: i was unbelievably
lucky in that my visit to the site almost coincided
with the conifers being harvested: if you look
carefully at the last picture on that site, you will
clearly see a tree stump and conifer debris on the
newly exposed mound

i am critical of what the FC do - instead of managing
deciduous woodland, which takes time, care and
intelligent management, they have gone for the easy
option and plant quick-growing conifers everywhere,
with absolutely zero regard for the environmental
context, i feel - they will plant these fleeting
forests right on top of barrows - undermining them - i
have seen this ... i think it's just a money crop to
them, mindless, souless, and rubber stamped by
Whitehall? :(

the fact that CADW have recently noted the site and it
is again culturally visible should protect it from
future depredations; however, people are moving into
the area with the constant threat of 'development' -
these precious sites need to be monitored on a regular
basis.

we don't even know for sure what's inside Bedd
Goronwy?

perhaps the man himself?

bests,

R


--- Thelma Wilcox <thelmawilcox at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:

> Hi Ric,
>    
>   The links in Welsh so don't understand it, but I
> have heard of Bronwen's barrow, or at least read it
> somewhere.. though I tend to get her mixed up with
> the Helen of the Sarn road..
>   Thelma