Bryn-Poeth-Uchaf North

Nearest town:
Llanwrtyd Wells (9km ENE)
OS reference:
SN799443
OS sheets:
146, 147, 160
Latitude:
52° 5' 0.71 N
Longitude:
3° 45' 10.58 W
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Images

Image of Bryn-Poeth-Uchaf North (Ring Cairn) by GLADMAN

Although stone work is most visible upon the southern (far) arc, this is clearly a well-preserved monument..

Image credit: Robert Gladstone
GLADMAN
GLADMAN Sep 30, 2023
Image of Bryn-Poeth-Uchaf North (Ring Cairn) by thesweetcheat

Landscape context from the track leading from the three sites to Carreg Garn Fawr.

Image credit: A. Brookes (28.2.2014)
thesweetcheat
thesweetcheat May 1, 2014
Image of Bryn-Poeth-Uchaf North (Ring Cairn) by thesweetcheat

Looking NW-ish. The dark forest hides further cairns (Garn Wen and Carn Twrch).

Image credit: A. Brookes (28.2.2014)
thesweetcheat
thesweetcheat May 1, 2014
Image of Bryn-Poeth-Uchaf North (Ring Cairn) by thesweetcheat

The encircling bank is best preserved on the southern side of the ring cairn.

Image credit: A. Brookes (28.2.2014)
thesweetcheat
thesweetcheat May 1, 2014
Image of Bryn-Poeth-Uchaf North (Ring Cairn) by thesweetcheat

Looking SW into the low winter sun, towards Carreg Garn Fawr cairn and stone.

Image credit: A. Brookes (28.2.2014)
thesweetcheat
thesweetcheat May 1, 2014
Image of Bryn-Poeth-Uchaf North (Ring Cairn) by postman

The best section of the ring cairn, elsewhere it looks to be simply gone.

Image credit: Chris Bickerton
postman
postman Mar 9, 2014
Image of Bryn-Poeth-Uchaf North (Ring Cairn) by postman

Looking west over the northern part of the ring cairn to the forested cairn topped hill.

Image credit: Chris Bickerton
postman
postman Mar 9, 2014
Image of Bryn-Poeth-Uchaf North (Ring Cairn) by postman

Looking over the western half of the ring cairn to cairn topped Carreg Garn Fawr.

Image credit: Chris Bickerton
postman
postman Mar 9, 2014
Image of Bryn-Poeth-Uchaf North (Ring Cairn) by postman

The ring cairn surrounds that tough reedy grass that no one knows the proper name of.

Image credit: Chris Bickerton
postman
postman Mar 9, 2014
Image of Bryn-Poeth-Uchaf North (Ring Cairn) by postman

Noting that the ring cairn isn’t at the top of the hill.

Image credit: Chris Bickerton
postman
postman Mar 9, 2014

Articles

Bryn-Poeth-Uchaf North

postman
postman Mar 11, 2014

North west of Cerrig Cynant stone circle is the last of this hillsides ancient delights, another ring cairn. Coflein gives the same name to both ring cairns, Bryn Poeth Uchaf (or Isaf) but calls one a cairn and the other a ring cairn, this is apparently the ring cairn, but they both are really. Aren’t they?
The ring cairn is not on top of the hill, it’s positioning when compared with it’s sibling over there is more normal. Perhaps it was meant to be seen from the south by the farm house maybe. The ring is mostly just lumpy ground surface, I had to circle it entirely to make sure it was what we were looking for, and discovered it to be much more together at it’s southern end, I guess that’s what you’d expect if that was the direction from which you were looking up the hill.
That horrid reedy grass has taken over the inside of the circle but amid all this precious wild life habitat I saw a bigger stone perhaps a foot and a half long ???
So that was that, it took three years but I had to see it, I had to get there, you know, I just had to. The day was now drawing to an end, the sun was low and by the time we got back to Carreg Garn Fawr it was most definitely home time.
Sciatic leg saw to it that the drive was nothing short of torture, the prices we pay sometimes far exceed money.

Miscellaneous

Bryn-Poeth-Uchaf North
Ring Cairn
GLADMAN
GLADMAN Sep 30, 2023

A pretty substantial ring cairn, this, with a well-preserved bank upon the southern arc and sweeping, extensive views to the apex of the South Walian uplands. A classic location, to be fair.

Coflein notes the following:

“Remains of a ring cairn on the SW-facing slopes of Mynydd Trawsnant, above Cerrig Cynnant. Circular on plan, measuring about 9m in diameter within a grass covered stony ring bank about 1.5m in thickness and up to 0.2m in height. The interior is level and largely stone free. [Source: Cadw scheduling description. F.Foster 05/04/2005]”

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