A friend told me about some huge stones he had seen while he was out walking, and he thought they might be prehistoric standing stones. He sent me some photos he'd taken. It sounded interesting, so yesterday I went out with another friend who has a car, and we went to investigate.
The stones were supposed to be close to a farm, which is close to Hay, but so remote that it doesn't even have a road passing the farmhouse - you have to go up a narrow farm track. We parked at the edge of the farmyard, and knocked at the house. The lady there was friendly, but at first she couldn't think of any old stones on the property. Then she had a bright idea, and led us across the garden, through a gate - and there they were.
Except they weren't old stones at all. There's a fairly modern barn at the top of the farmyard, and she told us that they needed to level the ground to get it in, so they also cut into the side of the hill - and that's where they dug out the big stones. They just put them by the side of the track, where they'd be out of the way. So sadly, there's nothing to report to the Megalithic Portal website after all.
All that hadn't taken long at all, so we went on to the New Strand at Eardisley for coffee and cake - and very nice cake it was, too. I had the jam sponge, and my friend had carrot cake, and we spread our maps out over the table to compare notes on our local history research.
While we were there a group of older ladies came in, who were obviously regulars, to have lunch - the chips smelled delicious!
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