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Surely among South Wales’ lesser-known great tombs?

This is the vista from the large monument to the approx north-east of the summit pair of cairns. Worth riding out a morning storm to enjoy the moment.

A bracing, 360-degree view from Crugyn Gwyddel, Esgair Pen-y-Garreg, Cwmdeuddwr Hills

Panorama from the summit of Higher White Tor. Fantastic viewpoint …plus possible hints of a ‘tor cairn’?

The ‘Green Desert’ of Cwmdeuddwr from Pen-y-Bwlch summit cairn

An ‘aerial view’ of the site, pausing upon the ascent of Banc Llechwedd-mawr

Perched upon ‘Branscombe’s Loaf’ in an attempt to obtain an aerial view of the tor cairn.

Freezing winter’s day upon Waun-y-Gwair (Twynau Gwynion) SO07621198, looking to the heart of The Brecon Beacons

A massive Bronze Age cairn crowns Huntingdon Hill upon Dartmoor. It is known as Huntingdon Barrow or, more interestingly perhaps, ‘Heap of Sinners’, the latter epithet clearly demonstrating the fear these wondrous, enigmatic places installed within the Christian faithful. More fool them, I say.

Overlooking the beautiful Cwm Berwyn within Y Carneddau, a small range of hills to the north-east of Builth Wells.

… untrodden Ceredigion.

Some would have you believe Pumlumon is a boring, sodden wilderness... and not an upland cairn aficionado’s dream destination.

Cairnucopia... upon Rippon Tor, Dartmoor

A summer moment upon the Bronze Age summit cairn of Pen y Garn, Cwmdeuddwr Hills. Don’t be deceived by the blue sky... it was freezing.

The large Bronze Age cairn can be seen beyond, to the approx south-west.

Glorious – if rather wobbly – panoramic views from the great cairn upon Carneddau Hill

Might as well be on another planet.... Ground Control to Major Tom.............

A very rough shufty of what it’s like upon Carn Hyddgen...

The folktale from the stones enacted (followed by Ronald Hutton).

YouTube report by thejournal.ie on the discoveries at Brú na Bóinne in summer 2018, with some good footage of the excavation at Dowth Hall.

YouTube video of a talk by Dr. Stefan Bergh, surveyor and excavator at Mullaghfarna.

Documentary film (11:14 m) on this reconstructed circular earthwork. In German only, but with some great shots by drones.

Survey work by David Strange-Walker of Trent & Peak Archaeology and Marcus Abbott of ArcHeritage. Thanks to Dr Steve Davis of University College Dublin, and the Office of Public Works, Ireland, for funding this project.

This is a very British (i.e. a somewhat awkward, but rather endearingly so) trumpeting of the stone. The besuited Mr Chadwick is an accomplished musician in his other videos, so it must be nice for him to add Blowing Stone to his list of instruments.

I was struck by how similar the sound is to the carnyx – like those on the Gundestrup cauldron (you can hear some on this video ) – or is that just me overthinking things :)

Computer reconstruction of Roman Baths Temple Courtyard