Pant Madog

Nearest town:
Llandovery (9km W)
OS reference:
SN84623003
OS sheet:
160
Latitude:
51° 57' 22.61 N
Longitude:
3° 40' 45.37 W
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Images

Image of Pant Madog (Round Cairn) by thesweetcheat

Looking off into Mid-Wales. The barrow enjoys good views in almost all directions, despite its relatively modest height (383m OD).

Image credit: A. Brookes (28.2.2014)
thesweetcheat
thesweetcheat Apr 27, 2014
Image of Pant Madog (Round Cairn) by thesweetcheat

Apart from a few small pieces of sandstone around the trig pillar, this could be an earthen round barrow rather than a stone-built cairn.

Image credit: A. Brookes (28.2.2014)
thesweetcheat
thesweetcheat Apr 27, 2014

Articles

Pant Madog

postman
postman Mar 2, 2014

Parking is still easy, if a trifle muddy, and apparently it still has the same dimensions, and a trig point too.
But settling for a view from the road is never going to be enough for me, so I deftly skip over the barbed wire fence, Alken wasn’t so deft, but here we are circling this neat little cairn. From here another cairn should be visible down the lane but trees obscure the view of it and the mountains.
Farming techniques have gone right up to the edge of the cairn which is grass covered leaving a square shape to it.
Good cairn, good place, crap OS.

Pant Madog

C
CARL Jan 24, 2011

Visited 23.1.11
Easy to spot next to the gate with the ‘unsuitable for motor vehicles’ sign.
Also easy to park at this point.
The Barrow is approximately 10 metres round and 1 metre high. It is on the other side of a barbed wire fence so I settled for a view from the roadside.

Pant Madog

postman
postman Feb 16, 2008

At the end of the lane south-west of Trecastle along the roman road is a carpark, It marks the ‘start walking’ point for the lovely Y Pigwn stone circles and is also fifty yards from this barrow. Ten metres across and one metre high with a trig point on top . Good views on a clear day.

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