Banc Lluest Newydd (Pumlumon)

Nearest town:
Machynlleth (12km NW)
OS reference:
SN7931289967
OS sheet:
135
Latitude:
52° 29' 37.83 N
Longitude:
3° 46' 40.36 W
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Toward Pen Pumlumon-Arwystli....

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Again, that northern ‘cairn‘

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The additional ‘cairn’ to the north.... Carn Hyddgen’s cairns can be seen top left.

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Now Coflein is silent in this respect – and I didn’t notice during my last visit 8 years ago – but this feature, a little north, certainly appears to be of artificial construct? Pen Pumlumon-Arwystli glowers upon the horizon.

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The way forward toward the far, far more substantial pair of cairns gracing the summit of Carn Hyddgen.

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Towards upper Cwm Hengwm. Those with excellent eyesight may just about make out Carn Fawr, upper right.

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Preparing to ford the Nant y Llyn (the nascent Afon Rheidol) en route to Banc Lluest Newydd, seen rising beyond, and Carn Hyddgen.

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Looking toward Pen Pumlumon Fawr to approx south...

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The ‘beehives’ topping Carn Hyddgen’s pair of cairns can be seen beyond. Banc Lluest Newydd’s monument is much smaller... but of course, it’s where it was placed that counts.

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Pen Pumlumon-Arwystli, with its trio of large cairns (although the northern is nowadays somewhat denuded), can be seen centre right skyline.

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Looking approx south-west towards Nant-y-Moch from Banc Lluest Newydd.... Drosgol is the large hill rising to the right of the reservoir, Pen Pumlumon Fawr is out of frame, top left. Both are crowned by funerary cairns........ well, this is Pumlumon. What else did you expect? [archive scan]

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Articles

Banc Lluest Newydd (Pumlumon)

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GLADMAN Nov 24, 2012

I approach heading south from the twin Carn Gwilym cairns which crown Carn Hyddgen, the landscape bathed in light so intense, so vivid... as to render the resulting colours beyond any description I might attempt. Some things are best left unsaid if we are to avoid the descent into pastiche..... save to give due credit to the ‘lighting department’. Out of this world....

Sadly the scant remains of this small cairn do not do justice to the magnificent scenery this evening. Set above a small tarn, I must admit I’m by no means convinced that this is in fact the ‘genuine’ article. Having said that, the site is not one that one would perhaps expect the archetypal ‘walker’s cairn’ to occupy, there being (arguably) much better potential locations nearby. Another for the ‘await excavation – if ever’ file, then.

The final, very steep descent to the Afon Hengwm affords a superb view toward Cwm Gwerin and Pen Pumlumon-Arwystli, shattered outcrops of rock rearing like proto-standing stones in the foreground. Pen Pumlumon-Fawr itself lies across the river, illuminated in blood red by the dying sun. Yeah, I wish I could stay and revel in it all for much longer... but nightfall approaches. As it must. And I’ve still a bit of a tramp to reach the car and (hopefully) sanctuary from the ghosts of any of Glyndwr’s host still with issues to settle during the night. Nos da.

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Banc Lluest Newydd (Pumlumon)
Cairn(s)
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GLADMAN Oct 9, 2010

Coflein has recorded the following for this little Bronze Age funerary cairn, sited below and to the south of the larger pair upon Carn Hyddgen:

‘A small, stone cairn, 2m in diameter and 0.15m high, on top of a local summit. When the feature was recorded in October 2006, the edges of the cairn were partially covered with grass and moss’.

Another piece of the great Pumlumon Bronze Age jigsaw.....

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