Pen Gloch-y-pibwr

Nearest town:
Crickhowell (5km SE)
OS reference:
SO202232
OS sheet:
161
Latitude:
51° 54' 4.05 N
Longitude:
3° 9' 35.95 W
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Images

Image of Pen Gloch-y-pibwr (Cairn(s)) by thesweetcheat

The NE cairn, looking towards Pen y Fan and Corn Du, with wooded Myarth in the middle distance.

Image credit: A. Brookes (15.5.2014)
thesweetcheat
thesweetcheat Jul 9, 2014
Image of Pen Gloch-y-pibwr (Cairn(s)) by thesweetcheat

The smaller cairn. There are some substantial slabs in the wreckage.

Image credit: A. Brookes (15.5.2014)
thesweetcheat
thesweetcheat Jul 9, 2014
Image of Pen Gloch-y-pibwr (Cairn(s)) by thesweetcheat

The ground falls away sharply from the cairns. There are plentiful standing stones in the valley below, and a long line of cairns along the ridge of Mynydd Llangorse, opposite.

Image credit: A. Brookes (15.5.2014)
thesweetcheat
thesweetcheat Jul 9, 2014
Image of Pen Gloch-y-pibwr (Cairn(s)) by thesweetcheat

Such a shame that the larger cairn has been so badly treated. It would have been a match for the two fine examples on nearby Pen Cerrig-calch.

Image credit: A. Brookes (15.5.2014)
thesweetcheat
thesweetcheat Jul 9, 2014
Image of Pen Gloch-y-pibwr (Cairn(s)) by GLADMAN

Towards the site from a’top Pen Allt-Mawr’s massive southern cairn.

Image credit: Robert Gladstone
GLADMAN
GLADMAN Sep 23, 2011
Image of Pen Gloch-y-pibwr (Cairn(s)) by thesweetcheat

Pen Gloch-y-pibwr on the right, Pen-y-Fan and the central Beacons on the skyline. Seen from the path to Pen Cerrig-calch.

Image credit: A. Brookes (27.3.2010)
thesweetcheat
thesweetcheat Apr 16, 2010
Image of Pen Gloch-y-pibwr (Cairn(s)) by thesweetcheat

Close up of the SW cairn, showing the stone construction and damage caused by excavation (and walkers).

Image credit: A. Brookes (27.3.2010)
thesweetcheat
thesweetcheat Apr 16, 2010

Articles

Pen Gloch-y-pibwr

thesweetcheat
thesweetcheat Apr 16, 2010

A walk along the windy escarpment from Pen Allt-mawr cairns, the first cairn (SO203233) is very badly ruined, perched right on the lip over a steep drop. The SW cairn (SO202232) is massive. Although ruined, it is still a very impressive monument, commanding views across to Pen y Fan and the central Beacons. This wild and windy place ... how important must those buried here have been, surveying their world from on high?

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