Image of Pen Llithrig y Wrach (Round Cairn) by GLADMAN

One interpretation of the Bronze Age practice of interning their (presumably) VIPs upon mountain tops would be a desire to quite literally ‘claim the high ground’ over other local groups... here, however, Nature puts such assumed ambitions firmly in perspective, figures surmounting Pen Llithrig y Wrach’s monument fading to irrelevance from Cregiau Gleision.

Image credit: Robert Gladstone