The Foel Drygarn quarries

 

I have done a number of posts on the Bronze Age and Iron Age quarries near the summit of Foel Drygarn.  I was up there a couple of weeks ago, and this is one of them.

  I am quite convinced that the quarrymen were quite disinterested in large blocks of stone, and targetted rubble and small stones that could be used in the 3 spectacular burial mounds on the summit and in the defensive embankments around the settlement site.  In most cases all they had to do was to take loose stones from banks of scree -- but in some cases they have clearly taken loose stones from the degraded flanks of the rhyolite and micro gabbro tors.

Nothing much was needed in the way of technology, although I would guess that wooden levers might have been used in order to extract the stones from the ground.