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Bedd Taliesin (which means 'Taliesin's Grave') is a prehistoric round cairn near Tre Taliesin, Cardiganshire. It is a round-kerb cairn with a cist about 6½ feet long. The capstone has fallen; the side stone slabs are more or less in their original positions. The cairn has no proven connection with the historical Taliesin, a 6th-century poet esteemed by the poets of mediæval Wales as the founder of the Welsh poetic tradition. His surviving work includes praise poems to the rulers of the early Welsh kingdom of Powys and Rheged, in the Hen Ogledd (modern northern England and southern Scotland). He became a figure of legend in mediæval Wales and his association with Elffin ap Gwyddno, son of the king of the fabled Cantre'r Gwaelod, off the coast of Ceredigion, may account for the monument's name. The antiquarian Edward Lhuyd recorded the local belief that if one spend a night on Taliesin's stone you would awake a poet or a madman. The monument is within the council area of Ceredigion.
CADW Scheduled Monument CD067.

Place Type: Prehistoric Burial Site
Historic County: Cardiganshire
Lat, Long: 52.502575,-3.9586264
Grid Reference: SN 6715 9121
Community (Civil Parish): Ceulanamaesmawr C
Council Area: Ceredigion CA
Police Area: Dyfed-Powys PA
Devolved Legislature:  Welsh Assembly (Senedd)

GBPN ID: 299829
Entry Type: Main listing (P)
URL: https://gazetteer.org.uk/place/Bedd_Taliesin,_Cardiganshire_299829

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