Eliseg's Pillar — Attraction in Llantysilio

It is truly amazing that after 1,200 years, it is still standing. Shame the cross has worn away, and broken off if this could speak, it would tell tales of King's princes, princesses, magicians, dragons, and even war. If you allow yourself to slip away in the moment, you can close your eyes and dream of all the Magic in Wales that has...

Eliseg's Pillar is a fragment of a 9th century cross six metres tall. Destroyed by iconoclasts during the English Civil War in 1640, the pillar holds an inscription of the lineage of the Kings of Powys back into the mists of mythology. The cross was erected on the a Bronze Age barrow, the earthworks of which remain...

Wonderful find on the roadside outside of Llangollen. The sign at the nearby abbey mentioned the pillar, so I went up to see it. 1000-year-old monument on a 4000-year-old hill. Both the hill and the monument are fenced off, so you can't climb up and get a closer look. Definitely...