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Silbury Hill / News by The Eternal |
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| That sounds idyllic June.I don't get down there often enough. |
Posted by The Eternal29 Nov 23ce |
Silbury Hill / News by The Eternal |
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| I walked along the WK Avenue earlier today, then to the top of Waden Hill to pay homage to Silbury sitting in its moat which is fed by various winter springs and small rivers. No one else around, the bright November afternoon sunlight casting long shadows. It was very peaceful and uplifting to be out there - the day felt like a gift. |
Posted by tjj24 Nov 23ce |
Crugiau Rhos-Wen (South East) / Image by GLADMAN |
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| Aside from the wind turbines looming through the mist................ |
Posted by GLADMAN20 Nov 23ce |
Crugiau Rhos-Wen (South East) / Image by GLADMAN |
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| I think a trek through the Amazon Rain Forest would be a similar experience! |
Posted by The Eternal 19 Nov 23ce |
Floutern Cop / Miscellaneous by GLADMAN |
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| Complete nutter. Made Tom from Father Ted look like a government diplomat... |
Posted by GLADMAN 15 Nov 23ce |
Floutern Cop / Miscellaneous by thesweetcheat |
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| Cool, well thank the Pastscape visitor for the accuracy! |
Posted by thesweetcheat15 Nov 23ce |
Mynydd Egryn / Link by GLADMAN |
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| By the time I got here I was getting pretty tired after the walk from Dyffryn Ardudwy, or I might have paid better attention - the path up from the bwlch on the right-hand side was clear on the ground, so I anticipated (wrongly) that there would be gates or stiles. Anyway, we know now :) |
Posted by thesweetcheat 15 Nov 23ce |
Floutern Cop / Miscellaneous by GLADMAN |
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| Hi Gladders, Nice post and warning. However, the warning is no longer needed. A few years ago the aggressive farmer took to taking a shotgun with him to threaten anyone approaching Floutern Pass. Thankfully, his going too far resulted in one person (can't understand why no-one elses did) reporting him to the police. Issue ended. |
Posted by The Eternal 15 Nov 23ce |
Floutern Cop / Miscellaneous by thesweetcheat |
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| Hi sweetcheat, I'm currently reviewing old memories via my posts and have to agree then the description you quote matches exactly what I found, except it's a bit more overgrown now. |
Posted by The Eternal 15 Nov 23ce |
Mynydd Egryn / Link by GLADMAN |
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| Well, for once I'd actually looked at the map pretty closely and had sussed that. According to the farmer, many of the walls which used to exist are no longer in repair. Assume those are lower level, though |
Posted by GLADMAN 14 Nov 23ce |
Mynydd Egryn / Link by GLADMAN |
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| Lovely, a "bit breezy" indeed! I meant to tell you to stay on the left side of the wall up from Bwlch y Rhiwgyr, but it looks like you did that anyway (there is a path up on the other side too, but it runs into several hard to climb drystone walls). |
Posted by thesweetcheat 13 Nov 23ce |
Tyrebagger / Image by thelonious |
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| 4 sec shot did make the colours pop a bit but they are not too far off. My camera has a bit of a mind of its own. I just press buttons and hope :-) |
Posted by thelonious13 Nov 23ce |
Tyrebagger / Image by thelonious |
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| It's great, I love the colours that have come into it. |
Posted by thesweetcheat 13 Nov 23ce |
Tyrebagger / Image by thelonious |
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| Thanks tsc, Just messing about with my camera and headtorch :-) |
Posted by thelonious 13 Nov 23ce |
Tyrebagger / Image by thelonious |
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| Absolutely love this photo. |
Posted by thesweetcheat 13 Nov 23ce |
Hengwm Ring Cairn / Image by thesweetcheat |
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| It's a cracker. Always good to visit a circle of some kind. |
Posted by thesweetcheat 05 Nov 23ce |
Hengwm Ring Cairn / Image by thesweetcheat |
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| And that is a superb site :-) |
Posted by drewbhoy04 Nov 23ce |
Gau Graig, Cadair Idris / Image by thesweetcheat |
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| It's impressive |
Posted by drewbhoy 04 Nov 23ce |
Gau Graig, Cadair Idris / Image by thesweetcheat |
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| Funnily enough, I really enjoyed the wind. Had full winter kit to hand, so still able to hang out |
Posted by GLADMAN 04 Nov 23ce |
Gau Graig, Cadair Idris / Image by thesweetcheat |
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Glad you got to Egryn, even if less than lovely conditions. Thank you - Mynydd Moel eventually followed in May, too. As you can see I'm ridiculously far behind with posting stuff, but might catch up over the winter as I had Covid not long after this trip, which kept me off the hills for ages. Between us we're getting there! |
Posted by thesweetcheat 04 Nov 23ce |
Gau Graig, Cadair Idris / Image by thesweetcheat |
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Very similar wind on Mynydd Egryn last month. But I wasn't going to postpone a second time. Literally blowing me over as the video will show. Liking the fact you're logging images of stuff I wish in retrospect I'd have captured back in the day. But, to be fair, you wouldn't focus upon a 'sheepfold', right? Assuming you've got pictures of the Mynydd Moel cairn, right? Incidentally, I tried to find the cairn cited by GAT below and west of Twll Yr Ogof, too. Couldn't believe I'd missed it last time... but nothing obvious there |
Posted by GLADMAN 04 Nov 23ce |
Gau Graig, Cadair Idris / Image by thesweetcheat |
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| Yeah, it looks like a modern marker to me. It's an obvious outcrop and looks like the high point, although its not actually the summit. |
Posted by thesweetcheat 04 Nov 23ce |
Gau Graig, Cadair Idris / Image by thesweetcheat |
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| It's a really odd site. The corners are right angles, which usually suggests medieval rather than prehistoric. But it's of little use as a sheepfold (there is a definite sheepfold on a little level shelf further down the NE ridge which I passed on the way up). Its location is much more suggestive of either something strategic (lookout over the pass?) or we have to fall back on "ritual". It's a terrific spot, but not that day. I couldn't stand up in the winds, luckily the rain had eased after lashing at me most of the way up. It took me the best part of two hours to climb a couple of hundred metres as I had to keep sheltering behind various outcrops when the weather got particularly bad. Much nicer in May sunshine on the way down from Cader this Spring! |
Posted by thesweetcheat 04 Nov 23ce |
Gau Graig, Cadair Idris / Image by thesweetcheat |
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| That's a better view... the cairn seems more like the 'Pile of Stones' I found on Clip recently |
Posted by GLADMAN 04 Nov 23ce |
Gau Graig, Cadair Idris / Image by thesweetcheat |
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| Ahh.... nice one. You would say much too small - and, furthermore, lacking a 'less difficult' practical approach for the inhabitants - to be a hillfort... and way too exposed for animal husbandry. So what is it? |
Posted by GLADMAN 04 Nov 23ce |
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