[Stones] Barclodiad y gawres

[David Swindlehurst]

If you had written this before the 2nd World War, you may have had a 
case. In recent years, the Forestry Commission has done a very good job 
of planting hardwoods and improving softwood stands, and you should be 
supporting them - not sniping using out-of-date opinions. And no, I'm 
not a FC employee or associated apologist, I just like fairplay.

DMS

Ric wrote:
> 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
>>     
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