Not standing stones from the Neolithic or Bronze Age........ but striking similarities.
Photo posted on Facebook by Jeremy Thomas. A Cholera cemetery connected to the Tredegar Ironworks. High on a bleak moorland above Abertwssyg, Rhymney valley. Cefn Golau Cemetry -- there is a location map on Coflein.
A fantastic photo, but something unutterably sad. Apparently there were several such in Wales, but the other are lost. Up to 600 people may be buried here -- many, I dare say, in unmarked graves.
Here is a link:
https://www.tredegar.co.uk/body_2007_news.htm#cholera_cemetery
The Coflein record:
Why so worried
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Say the silver bells of Wye?
And what will you give me
Say the sad bells of Rhymney
"THE BELLS OF RHYMNEY"
PETE SEEGER/ THE BYRDS / LOT OF OTHER VERSIONS
My favourite geographically - based song
I understand that the churchyard at Warren, near Castlemartin in Pembrokeshire, was used to bury cholera victims from the Pembroke area. There is an area in the yard, NW quadrant, where there are no gravestones and the ground is raised more so than the rest of the yard. It is, however, very near a deep-ish well!
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