Caer Blaen-y-Cwm

Nearest town:
Maesteg (3km NNE)
OS reference:
SS83348805
OS sheet:
170
Latitude:
51° 34' 43.31 N
Longitude:
3° 41' 1.64 W
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Image of Caer Blaen-y-Cwm (Enclosure) by GLADMAN

The defences of the inner enclosure are pretty good, to be honest. Note the Mam C for scale...

Image credit: Robert Gladstone
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GLADMAN Sep 24, 2011
Image of Caer Blaen-y-Cwm (Enclosure) by GLADMAN

Main enclosure, northern arc. Y Bwlwarcau lies, unseen, on the far flank of the hill beyond Cwm Kenfig.

Image credit: Robert Gladstone
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GLADMAN Sep 24, 2011
Image of Caer Blaen-y-Cwm (Enclosure) by GLADMAN

Main enclosure, western defences, looking approx south....

Image credit: Robert Gladstone
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GLADMAN Sep 24, 2011
Image of Caer Blaen-y-Cwm (Enclosure) by GLADMAN

Southern cross defences, looking approx east.

Image credit: Robert Gladstone
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GLADMAN Sep 24, 2011
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What appears to be a sunken ‘droveway’ (??) approaching the enclosure from the south. Looking approx south-west.

Image credit: Robert Gladstone
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GLADMAN Sep 24, 2011
Image of Caer Blaen-y-Cwm (Enclosure) by GLADMAN

Southern cross defences.... looking approx west.

Image credit: Robert Gladstone
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GLADMAN Sep 24, 2011
Image of Caer Blaen-y-Cwm (Enclosure) by GLADMAN

Additional defences to south of the main enclosure.... The Mam C shows these to be quite significant for what I took to be a defended animal enclosure....

Image credit: Robert Gladstone
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Articles

Caer Blaen-y-Cwm

C
CARL May 14, 2013

Visited 13.5.13

Directions:
See details for Y Bwlwarcau.
Continue uphill until you reach a forestry track. (10 minute walk)
The enclosure is directly to the right (north) of the track.

As with Y Bwlwarcau this is another area of ‘rough, lumpy bumpy’ ground.
The earthworks however are more substantial and easier to spot.

Despite being the middle of May it was fairly bleak up here and the cold wind biting.
The sun was doing its best to break through the grey clouds but it was obvious rain wasn’t far off. Not much in the way of views although the birdsong was nice to hear.

Being a South Wales site it was no surprise to find an empty larger can………..

COFLEIN states:
‘A quadrangular enclosure, c.44m E-W by 40m, defined by double banks with a medial ditch; a c.164m stretch of N-facing bank and ditch, runs ENE-WSW, c.68m to the N: the site is obscured by a N-S trackway.
The bank and ditch to the N, together with less defined E-W linear features, c.52m to the S, have has been considered as the remnants of a large outer enclosure, c.200m square, similar to those at Moel Ton-Mawr’.

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