Image of Picws Du, Y Mynydd Du (Round Cairn) by GLADMAN

They sure knew where to put ‘em.... the cairn crowns the wonderfully elegant high point of Bannau Sir Gaer nearest the camera, with Llyn Y Fan Fach, the fairy lake, lying beyond... immersed in watery legend. Viewpoint is Fan Foel, with an excellent excavated monument of its own, complete with cist.

Image credit: Robert Gladstone