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It's fascinating. As you've said on many occasions, I think the watercourses/sources are the key to these sites. The mountains seem almost incidental at Nant Tarw, although when I was there they were obscured by clouds so I probably didn't get a proper feel for their relationship to the site. I would love to go back there, it's a damn long walk though.

thesweetcheat wrote:
It's fascinating. As you've said on many occasions, I think the watercourses/sources are the key to these sites. The mountains seem almost incidental at Nant Tarw, although when I was there they were obscured by clouds so I probably didn't get a proper feel for their relationship to the site. I would love to go back there, it's a damn long walk though.
Isn't it just? Of course it's all conjecture... however the fact that the col frames Pen y Fan from the main circle - and both peaks from the row - but nowhere else does suggest an association? The col, of course, is also the route taken by the newly born Nant Tarw from its source.