Gelligaer Common Cairns

  • SO098033
Nearest town:
Rhymney (5km NNE)
OS reference:
SO098033
OS sheet:
171
Latitude:
51° 43' 14.33 N
Longitude:
3° 18' 21.38 W
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Image of Gelligaer Common Cairns by thesweetcheat

Showing the thickness of the capstone. As well as the side stone, there is a thinner upright slab still in place, at right angles.

Image credit: A. Brookes (26.3.2022)
thesweetcheat
thesweetcheat Mar 26, 2023
Image of Gelligaer Common Cairns by thesweetcheat

Side slab in situ, suggesting the capstone was slid backwards to expose the inside of the cist.

Image credit: A. Brookes (26.3.2022)
thesweetcheat
thesweetcheat Mar 26, 2023
Image of Gelligaer Common Cairns by thesweetcheat

Fine cairn with capped cist, southeast of and downhill from the Carn y Bugail sites. Looking SE.

Image credit: A. Brookes (26.3.2022)
thesweetcheat
thesweetcheat Mar 26, 2023

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Gelligaer Common Cairns

C
CARL Dec 30, 2010

Visited 12.12.10
There are several cairns scattered across Gelligaer Common. One of the best preserved can be found at SO098033. This cairn is about 5 metres across with a large central cist and a capstone about 1 metre square – supported on edge of cist. It was painfully cold in the bitter wind, with snow a couple of inches thick lying all around. Needless to say I didn’t hang around too long.

There is also a cairn at SO098031 (which I failed to spot) and further cairns a little North West of the parking area at SO105031 (which I was too cold to look for!)

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