
Big stones in the kerb.
Big stones in the kerb.
The kerbed cairn, with Braich Ddu/Craig-cwm-lwyd rising on the right.
The excellent kerbed cairn, more overgrown than when Postie came a dozen years earlier. Into the pouring rain, splodges on the lens.
Northern cairn, looking down on Abermaw and across to the southern ridge of Y Rhinogydd.
Low remains of the northern cairn, looking NE towards the Afon Mawddach and Pared y Cefn Hir (centre skyline).
Cupmarks on the boulder. The sheep have no appreciation for rock art.
The cupmarked boulder, looking SSE towards the road.
Kerb cairn and cupped boulder seen from rock outcrop, looking towards Carnedd Lwyd
The kerb cairn with cupped boulder beyond
Kerb cairn, cupped boulder and Pared y cefn hir all line up brilliantly.
The cup marked boulder
seven cupmarks
Seven cupmarks
Looking down on the kerb cairn from the rock outcrop, my car squeezes in top left to show proximity to road
Looking over the denuded cairn down on to Barmouth
Looking over the denuded cairn toward Carnedd Lwyd
From the gate by the road
Praise be to Rhiannon for finding this one, as a birthday treat to myself I took myself out to find this cup marked rock in some of the most exquisite countryside North Wales has to offer.
I’ve driven past here maybe half a dozen times on route to stone rows and cairns and such, had no idea it was there or i would have been here long ago. Follow the many many gated road that slithers along under the Cader Idris range, and stop before you enter the forestry commision type place that has Bedd y Brenin in it. Look over the gate and a small rocky outcrop is about a hundred yards away, the cupped boulder and the kerb cairn are below it.
The kerb cairn is a little cracker, totally unexpected.
Well I knew about the two cairns but you just don’t expect such a nice little monument, whilst photographing it I noticed that the cairn and cupped boulder lined up nicely with Pared Y Cefn Hir, as there are no coincidences, this can’t be one. The boulder is about five foot square and although there are supposed to be eight cups I could only see seven. I’m not sure if it’s my over active imagination or not but they were laid out it seemed in a phallic sort of way, two next to each other and four bending away towards the mountains.
The other cairn, which can be in no way said to be the other side of the cupped boulder looks down over Barmouth and the Mawddach estuary. Though much crapper than its near nieghbour it still has a fantastic view.
So glad that Rhiannon added this site, got any more anyone?
The Coflein site says this rock (between two cairns) has at least eight cupmarks.