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A distant view of Crug Mawr – the Great Mound – framed by the lush vegetation of the Teifi Estuary.

The British Isles, showing the location of Dyfed, Cardigan Bay and Stonehenge.

Dyfed, the peninsula of south-west Wales, showing the county towns of Carmarthen (Carmarthenshire), Haverfordwest (Pembrokeshire) and Cardigan (Ceredigion) and the cathedral city of St David’s. The distribution of dolmens is shown, centred mainly near the coast and the Preseli Hills: the high country southwest of Cardigan.

Pentre Ifan cromlech near Newport, North Pembrokeshire, one of the most impressive dolmens to have survived in southwest Wales. 

Cardigan Castle guards the bridge crossing the river Teifi.

Map showing the relative positions of the river Teifi and its tributaries the Cych and the Arberth, Vaynor Ford midway between the confluence of those two streams with the main river, and Crug Mawr, the Great Mound.

Crug Mawr, the Great Mound, viewed from the reed-beds of the Teifi Estuary. 

Preseli: a landscape of rolling hills with rocky outcrops. 

Spotted dolerite gatepost on the south bank of the Teifi estuary, with the mound of Crug Mawr visible in the background.         

The trackway north from Cwm Meigan, showing a bluestone gatepost on the left side of a field entrance. 

Spotted-dolerite pillars, formerly used as gateposts, discarded after replacement to enlarge field entrances. 

Remains of a megalithic construction in the inter-tidal zone in Brittany. 

The Blessing Stone, presumed by the author to have formerly been a dolmen capstone. 

Collection of three bluestones close to the Blessing Stone that likely formed part of a dolmen. 

The spotted dolerite Sagranus Stone in St Thomas’ church, St Dogmaels. 

More examples of bluestones collected for safe-keeping at St Dogmael’s. 

Map summarising finds of bluestones and the lost megaliths of Arberth.

Map illustrating the location of the fertile crescent (blue) and the inner, oval core area (red) of Neolithic innovation.

Map illustrating the two main routes of Neolithic expansion into western Europe: overland (red) and through Mediterranean and Atlantic seaboards (blue).

Coracles are still used for salmon fishing on the river Teifi. 

Flint spokeshave found in the Nevern estuary. 

Part of an impressive megalithic array of aligned stones at Carnac, Brittany. 

Map illustrating the expansion of megalith construction in three main phases, shaded in red, green and yellow, the earliest beginning in Brittany, circa 4,800 BC. Megaliths in other red areas mainly 4,400-4,200 BC. The green shaded areas around 4,000 BC. Dates for megaliths in the yellow shaded areas start around 3,500 BC. (After Paulsson, 2019).

Bronze Age statuette of a goddess or priestess from Delphi.

Effigy of the Virgen del Carmen wrapped in protective plastic sheet, carried out to sea each year on a fishing boat from Tarifa, Andalucia.

Iberian black pigs, thought to be similar to the domestic varieties of the Neolithic.

The Virgin of Rocío in all her splendour, installed in the hermitage of El Rocío. 

Ox-drawn decorated wagons in procession to El Rocío. 

Ox-drawn decorated wagons in procession to El Rocío. 

Mobile shrine en route to El Rocío

Pilgrims heading to El Rocío.

Pilgrims heading to El Rocío.

Pilgrims heading to El Rocío.

Pilgrims heading to El Rocío.

Pilgrim procession led by a mobile shrine heading to El Rocío.

Pilgrims heading to El Rocío on foot bind bunches of the herb rosemary to their staffs.

Many more images of the pilgrimage to El Rocio from 2013 and 2010 can be found on this website.

Natural mound in the sacred landscape of the Menga dolmen in Antequera.

The giantess in the landscape (left) and a natural, symmetric mound (right), as seen from the Menga dolmen entrance. 

The giantess in the landscape seen from the portal of the Menga dolmen. 

Crug Mawr appears as a symmetric mound in the landscape, as though crafted by giant, supernatural hands. 

Bryn Celli Ddu, the Mound of the Dark Grove on Anglesey has a shape similar to the much larger, natural mound of Crug Mawr.

Neolithic Stonehenge, a perfect circle of 56 evenly spaced bluestones set within a bank and ditch.

The red dragon emblazoned on the flag of Wales.

Diagrammatic plan of the first phase of Stonehenge with an eight-pointed star drawn on the positions of bluestones, marked by the Aubrey Holes. The out-lying Alter Stone to the northeast lies on the 50° azimuth from the centre of the circle.