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Approach and environs of the ‘not-so-white’ White Cairn...

But one of a significant series of Mid Walian high hilltops crowned by equally significant Bronze Age cairns, there is no simple way of getting here. But then, perhaps that’s a good thing, right?

Another obscure gem of Essex.......

Now Essex doesn’t have a great many round barrows still upstanding.... although upon viewing this – and its not too distant neighbour at Salcott-cum-Virley – one might be tempted to quote the old adage ‘quality before quantity’?

At the northern end of Southend-on-Sea. Or something like that....

‘Scandinavian design’ not required. Apparently.

Visitors might have to stop, pinch themselves and note that... yes... this is indeed Essex.

Waun Mawn: a former stone circle near the bluestone quarries for Stonehenge by Prof. Mike Parker Pearson (in English).

In 2017 and 2018 the Stones of Stonehenge Project, led by researchers from University College London and the universities of Southampton, Bournemouth and the Highlands & Islands, carried out excavations at Waun Mawn in North Pembrokeshire to discover if the four monoliths there are all that is left of a prehistoric stone circle. These four monoliths – three of them recumbent and one still standing – form an arc which previous archaeologists have suspected may be remains of a circle. Our excavations discovered a further six empty sockets around the perimeter, revealing that this stone circle was originally 110m in diameter. This makes it one of the largest stone circles in Britain and the same diameter as the ditch around Stonehenge. The team have also been able to establish its age by radiocarbon dating and optically stimulated luminescence (OSL) profiling and dating.

Garth is the eastern promontory of Drum Ddu, the featured cairn just one of a series of mighty upland monuments gracing the surrounding area.

Let’s face it – it was never going to be small.... with a name like ‘Giant’s Grave’, right?

‘Big Cairn’.... hey, say what you see, right?

Should you be passing...

The more ‘grassy’ northern cairn upon northern Y Carneddau, near Builth Wells, Powys. SO0665055430

Now I can – and will – forgive the wondrous OS anything. However, for such a sublime cairn to not be featured upon current mapping is rather odd.......

A pretty obscure ‘odd couple’ of cairns upon the south-western flanks of Mynydd Mallaen.

A walk around Kemerton Camp upon the hottest day of the year. OK, more like a stagger....

A panoramic perspective of the southern cairn, northern Carneddau...

The approach to – and arrival at – the Bronze Age cairn upon Blaen Clawdd Du, high upon the Cwmdeuddwr Hills, near Rhayader.

Where Industrial South Wales meets The Brecon Beacons great things were always gonna happen....

Wouldn’t recommend a visit in high summer, however. Unless you’ve shins of iron....

Just one of the extensive series of monuments gracing this little Carmarthenshire hill...

A pair of neolithic chambers – one collapsed – forming but a part of the incredible complex of prehistoric monuments upon this mountain, ravaged by quarrying upon its northern flank. To be honest, I had no idea anything else was here until a perusal of the map. One of South Wales’ – nay, Wales’ – best kept secrets.

A dishevelled, yet nonetheless mighty Bronze Age cairn crowns this, the western-most 2,000ft summit of the wondrous Y Mynydd Du. The incumbent bees were not pleased with my return, but there you are. They did finally accept my presence, given time.

A selection of The Citizen cairn’s favourite lowland sites from the past 10 years (with reasonably presentable digital images, that is).

Hardly any cairns, too.