An Old Oak Tree on the Nannau Estate in 2019

Nannau Oaks in 2019

These photos were taken during Spring 2019. Both trees are located near the site of  Derwen Ceubren yr Ellyll, so may well be descended from that tree.
Victorian Figured Oak Breakfast Table

Victorian Figured Oak Breakfast Table

A Victorian Figured Oak Breakfast Table, Welsh. The timber reputedly from an oak tree known as Derwen Ceubren yr Ellyll. Sold for £750 inc. premium. Reputedly bequeathed by Sir Robert Williames Vaughan,...
An Oak Folding Top Table from Nannau

Oak Folding Top Table

A Welsh oak folding top table, the 19th century crossbanded veneered top, inscribed underneath ‘Ceubren yr Ellyll’, on a later turned folding base, 30.5in (77.5cm) h, 43.25in (110cm) w, 28.5in (72.4cm)...
Silver mounted horns and hoofs of the white ox

Tamlyns 2008 Auction – Lot 055

The White Ox Candelabra The horns and hoofs mounted in silver, raised on pollard-oak rectangular plinth, the horns detachable for use as drinking vessels, each bearing a circular silver shield, one...
Tamlyns Lot 054

Tamlyns 2008 Auction – Lot 054

A set of four silver mounted oak cups modelled in the form of acorns, each engraved with a toast, in Welsh, and inscribed R.W.V. 25th June 1824, bearing two circular silver...
Derwen Ceubren yr Ellyll -1889 Engraving

Ceubren Yr Ellyll – 1889 Engraving

Derwen Ceubren yr Ellyll -1889 Engraving
Derwen Ceubren yr Ellyll Print from the 1813 Sketch by Sir Richard Colt Hoare

Derwen Ceubren yr Ellyll Print from a Sketch by Sir Richard Colt Hoare

Within the trunk of this venerable oak (according to Welch tradition) the body of Howel Sele, a powerful chieftain, residing at Nannau in Merionethshire, was immured, by order of his rival...
The Nannau Oak - Watercolour by Sir Richard Colt Hoare © National Trust / David Cousins.

The Nannau Oak – Watercolour by Sir Richard Colt Hoare

The Nannau Oak (Derwen Ceubren yr Ellyll) Watercolour by Sir Richard Colt Hoare, 2nd Bart. (1758-1838). Watercolour on paper. © National Trust / David Cousins.

Derwen Ceubren yr Ellyll

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