Y Ro Wen

Nearest town:
Blaenau Ffestiniog (6km SW)
OS reference:
SH745498
OS sheet:
115
Latitude:
53° 1' 49.29 N
Longitude:
3° 52' 17.9 W
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Images

Image of Y Ro Wen (Cairn(s)) by GLADMAN

Looking across to the prominent ridge of Y Ro Wen from Daear Ddu, Moel Siabod. The (as far as I recall when I climbed it some years back) cairn-less Moel Penamnen is to the right

Image credit: Robert Gladstone
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GLADMAN Nov 14, 2019
Image of Y Ro Wen (Cairn(s)) by GLADMAN

Part of speculated ‘kerb’ surrounding small mound to north of the co-joined summit cairns #3 GLADMAN is sponsored by some shite hand cream you really don’t want to know about...

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GLADMAN Nov 2, 2015
Image of Y Ro Wen (Cairn(s)) by GLADMAN

Part of speculated ‘kerb’ surrounding small mound to north of the co-joined summit cairns #2

Image credit: Robert Gladstone
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GLADMAN Nov 2, 2015
Image of Y Ro Wen (Cairn(s)) by GLADMAN

Part of speculated ‘kerb’ surrounding small mound to north of the co-joined summit cairns #1

Image credit: Robert Gladstone
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GLADMAN Nov 2, 2015
Image of Y Ro Wen (Cairn(s)) by GLADMAN

The ‘kerbed cairn’ to north... needless to say I could be mistaken. But I didn’t... and don’t think so.

Image credit: Robert Gladstone
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GLADMAN Nov 2, 2015
Image of Y Ro Wen (Cairn(s)) by GLADMAN

Mound upon the next rise to the north of the co-joined cairns... closer inspection revealed several diminutive ‘orthostats’ arranged around the circumference (see images in ‘Interpretive’ section). For what it’s worth I was tentatively of the opinion that here we have a small kerbed cairn.

Image credit: Robert Gladstone
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GLADMAN Nov 2, 2015
Image of Y Ro Wen (Cairn(s)) by GLADMAN

Additional reward for a fearsome battering... I’ve camped at the nearby Fferm y’Rynys (almost opposite the Penmachno turning from the A5) since 1982 and never realised the cairn can be clearly seen from there.... together with that upon Moel Siabod. Some things are meant to be, I guess.

Image credit: Robert Gladstone
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GLADMAN Nov 1, 2015
Image of Y Ro Wen (Cairn(s)) by GLADMAN

Looking approx south-east across Cwm Penmachno to the (in my opinion) enigmatic Llyn Conwy, primary source of the magnificent river, set upon the bleak skyline of The Migneint. Incidentally the foreground lake is Llyn y Tomla...

Image credit: Robert Gladstone
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GLADMAN Nov 1, 2015
Image of Y Ro Wen (Cairn(s)) by GLADMAN

Looking south – there are apparently the remains of an additional monument over to the right, albeit hard to discern on the ground.

Image credit: Robert Gladstone
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GLADMAN Nov 1, 2015
Image of Y Ro Wen (Cairn(s)) by GLADMAN

The monument might have originally consisted of co-joined cairns.

Image credit: Robert Gladstone
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GLADMAN Nov 1, 2015
Image of Y Ro Wen (Cairn(s)) by GLADMAN

Looking north across that footprint...

Image credit: Robert Gladstone
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GLADMAN Nov 1, 2015
Image of Y Ro Wen (Cairn(s)) by GLADMAN

I agree with Meic... and, as it happens, Coflein... the footprint is strongly suggestive of a prehistoric ancestry despite associated industrial activity.

Image credit: Robert Gladstone
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GLADMAN Nov 1, 2015
Image of Y Ro Wen (Cairn(s)) by GLADMAN

Looking toward the cairn (co-joined cairns?) from the south. Please to capture this since the wind was severe.

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