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Offline Barbiroli

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Re: Quiz Time (General Knowledge & Out of Area)
« Reply #3975 on: April 08, 2014, 08:39:54 pm »
Clynnog Fawr

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Re: Quiz Time (General Knowledge & Out of Area)
« Reply #3976 on: April 08, 2014, 08:53:27 pm »
Nice try Barbiroli but it's not correct.  It's further east and over the border.


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Re: Quiz Time (General Knowledge & Out of Area)
« Reply #3977 on: April 08, 2014, 09:30:17 pm »
At least two kings have sailed from here!      ???

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« Reply #3978 on: April 08, 2014, 09:44:29 pm »
This was inside the Church and outside on the top of the wall surrounding the graveyard is a metal ring that boats were allegedly moored to.

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Re: Quiz Time (General Knowledge & Out of Area)
« Reply #3979 on: April 08, 2014, 10:13:17 pm »
St Michael's, Shotwick?

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« Reply #3980 on: April 08, 2014, 10:25:18 pm »
You've done it again Jack &well&

We stopped there on Sunday after the Williamson Tunnel trip.   Apparently Edward 1 sailed from there to Wales in 1278.

Those marks in the Church porch are where people sharpened their arrow heads.

I've got another one lined up for you for tomorrow, but it's a two parter.  One easy peasy but the other, well we'll see.

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Re: Quiz Time (General Knowledge & Out of Area)
« Reply #3981 on: April 09, 2014, 10:07:39 am »
Back to N  Wales again and a question in two parts that Jack and Gwynant will know:-

Q 1       Where will you see this stone

Q 2        What is special about the stone

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« Reply #3982 on: April 09, 2014, 12:10:13 pm »
           I think I recognise where the area where the lane is situated, Hugo, and it's not too far outside the Three Town's area, (on the way to two more famous standing stones in a nearby bwlch if I'm right,) but I have no idea what the significance of this stone is.

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Re: Quiz Time (General Knowledge & Out of Area)
« Reply #3983 on: April 09, 2014, 12:27:15 pm »
You've got the first question correct Gwynant, it's on the Roman Road towards Aber.  That's the easy bit, but what is special about this particular stone?
 Here are some photos of other monuments nearby

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Re: Quiz Time (General Knowledge & Out of Area)
« Reply #3984 on: April 09, 2014, 12:56:21 pm »
Is it a boundary marker?   :D
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Re: Quiz Time (General Knowledge & Out of Area)
« Reply #3985 on: April 09, 2014, 01:30:54 pm »
Is it the mediaeval cross-incised stone on the Roman Road?

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« Reply #3986 on: April 09, 2014, 02:36:15 pm »
That's a hat trick Jack    &well&   

I didn't know anything about it until I read Chris Draper's book "Walks from Conwy"    so  I decided to have a closer look about two months ago and at that time the Roman road was more like a river because of the rainfall we had last Winter.
It's a rare 7th or 8th Century Christian Prayer Station.  The inscription consists of a cross within a circle but is very difficult to recognise unless the Sun is in a favourable position.   Pilgrims must have passed that way on their pilgrimage to Bardsey Island
I had a really good look but couldn't make it out so I contacted Chris Draper via a friend to confirm I had looked at the right stone.

Will I ever get a question to beat you Jack, I'm beginning to doubt it, so well done

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Re: Quiz Time (General Knowledge & Out of Area)
« Reply #3987 on: April 15, 2014, 06:28:14 pm »
Where in North Wales will you find this sculpture?

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Re: Quiz Time (General Knowledge & Out of Area)
« Reply #3988 on: April 15, 2014, 08:36:22 pm »
Somewhere on Anglesey?

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Re: Quiz Time (General Knowledge & Out of Area)
« Reply #3989 on: April 15, 2014, 09:14:11 pm »
No sorry, not Anglesey.