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Image of Twyn Hywel (Round Cairn) by thesweetcheat

The cairn with masts to the immediate NW, which provide a good landmark for finding the site.

Image credit: A. Brookes (11.1.2014)

thesweetcheat Mar 10, 2014

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Looking south to the summit of Cefn Eglwysilan – the intervening ground was a muddy quagmire on this visit.

Image credit: A. Brookes (11.1.2014)

thesweetcheat Mar 10, 2014

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Looking NE across the cairn, to the Senghenydd ridge, where there are several more substantial cairns.

Image credit: A. Brookes (11.1.2014)

thesweetcheat Mar 10, 2014

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Perhaps not the most impressive cairn you’ll ever see, but the setting is great. Looking SE across the Senghenydd valley.

Image credit: A. Brookes (11.1.2014)

thesweetcheat Mar 10, 2014

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Twyn Hywel

Round Cairn

thesweetcheat Mar 10, 2014

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Coflein has the following:

A centrally disturbed round cairn, 8.5m in diameter and 0.5m high.
Several tumuli on ‘Eglwysilan Common’ were opened in 1753, when a number of urns containing burnt bones were found in stone cists, condition=Damaged.

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