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| I last came here 7 years ago on a misty summer solstice morning, lack of knowledge made me miss half of the cairns. Coflein later told me that one or two of them have cists, and elsewhere I missed a ring cairn and a kerb cairn so I promised myself one day I would return. For a change, Thesweatcheat and myself find a coinciding day off work with no hindrances, apart from car over heating problems, it's on it's way out cant be helped. So here we are. There is no footpath up to the cairns, early on in the walk we came across a farm, saw the farmer and asked if we can get up there pointing to the hill top we wanted to climb, worryingly he asked why we wanted to go up there, we said "cairns" you know the ancient ones, he pointed out there are no public footpaths up there, I gave him my best innocent smile, we'll be alright wont we? He pointed out the way up and off we went. A steep farm track took us almost all the way to the cairns, it was hard work, did I say it was steep? The cairns are all low and small, some have kerbing showing and some have been dug into revealing the cairns innards, didn't see any cists. Then the farmer turned up in his buggy with his two dogs. We chatted about the cairns and stuff and discovered his family had been farming here for four generations, I took a chance and asked if he knew much about the Berwyn incident. He knew a lot, his granddad had been on tele talking about the tremor, the loud bang, the lights, the army. Not interested in the Berwyn incident? never heard of it? Long drawn out sigh. So, not all the cairns here, there are over a dozen, are grouped under the name of Yr Aran cairns, strangely the two or three furthest south over the fence are called Rhyd-y-Gethin, which is stranger still as Rhyd-y-Gethin is the other side of Yr Aran and down in the valley. Two Yr Aran cairns are over the north south fence but north of the west east fence, there are a few fences up here. It is farmland, not open access Berwyn nature reserve. these two cairns are much the same as the cairns by the trees. Hope that all makes sense. |
Posted by postman26th March 2018ce |
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| He was a nice guy, I enjoyed talking to him. Always great to meet someone who cares about the history and heritage of the land they farm. |
Posted by thesweetcheat26th March 2018ce |
| I've been looking at the Historic Wales records and I think Yr Aran and Rhyd y Gethin are two names for the same group really. In particular I think Rhyd y Gethin III and Yr Aran I are probably the same cairn. It might be better to merge these two sites and add both names? |
Posted by thesweetcheat 11th April 2018ce |
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