Carreg Samson

Definitely a favourite.  Carreg Samson, just says "you think I can't do this?" That heavy capstone must have taken some engineering to get it atop the orthostats.  Was it a top down or bottom up build I wonder.  There is a grace as to how the vertical stones lean.  This monster lives in a field, a fairly long walk down the drive to the farm and then you spy it in the field.  I remember Bucky and Loie coming with us and Bucky looking for more stones.  But look at the solid stone and green hedge behind and you will see large stones also in the wall.  Intriguing, what has been lost here I wonder.

Carreg Samson

Above this sea stands one cromlech, Samson Carreg facing the curving coastline, the ground is not high, softly sloping to the small bay beneath and the tiny island offset against the beach. Was this the reason the burial mound was placed here? It is an elegant statement of large standing stones that balance a chunky capstone. Julian Cope says of its stones that they are shot through with amber quartzite, it has become sculptured on the landscape like an "ancient stone rhinoceros, caught mid-charge in one instant and destined to remain here forever".  From an old blog.

Dear Moss my companion for many years on these forays into prehistory.  He looked after me and I shall never forget one time in an enclosure with a ruined chapel.  There was a couple in there and Moss seemed to go up and bite the man's bottom.  Profuse apologies from me, but the man said don't worry he was only protecting you.  Moss loved these holidays in Wales.

Saint Samson gave his names to a lot of prehistoric places and this 2009 blog gives some of them.