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Image of Moel yr Ogof (Round Cairn) by postman

Moel Hebog on the left with its top in the cloud, but next on it’s right is Moel yr Ogof

Image credit: Chris Bickerton
Image of Moel yr Ogof (Round Cairn) by GLADMAN

The Bronze Age funerary cairn is upon the crag nearest camera, viewed from Moel Hebog. Craig Cwm-Silyn’s monument is top left. The prominent cairn upon Mynydd Tal-y-Mignedd (top centre right) was erected in honour of Queen Victoria by a ‘grateful nation’. Suckers.

Image credit: Robert Gladstone
Image of Moel yr Ogof (Round Cairn) by GLADMAN

Approaching from Moel Hebog. Oh, there are quite a few other Bronze Age cairns around and about, by the way........

Image credit: Robert Gladstone

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Moel yr Ogof
Round Cairn

Moel yr Ogof...the ‘Hill of the Cave’.... is a 2,149ft mountain rising to the north west of Moel Hebog, separating Cwm Meillionen from Cwm Llefrith. Its claim to fame – and, indeed, reason for its name – is a cave high up on its eastern face where Owain Glyndwyr is said to sleep until called upon to do whatever slumbering heroes do when rudely awakened. I tend to rush off to work, it has to be said, cursing all and sundry...

Moel yr Ogof possesses another, much more tangible treasure upon its brutally exposed summit, however... a Bronze Age funerary cairn. Ha! According to Coflein it is:

‘A roughly circular cairn of approx. 1.2m in diameter which is situated on level ground adjacent to a summit. Comprised of stones varying in size between 0.2m – 0.3m, there are two possible capstones over a hole in the ground that could be a cist. Noted during an upland survey conducted by Archaeophysica during 2005-6‘

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