Bwlch east of Moel y Llyn, Ceulanamaesmawr (Cairn(s)) — The Modern Antiquarian

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Image of Bwlch east of Moel y Llyn, Ceulanamaesmawr (Cairn(s)) by GLADMAN

Aerial view of the bwlch and its ancient treasures from Moel y Llyn.

Image credit: Robert Gladstone

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Image of Bwlch east of Moel y Llyn, Ceulanamaesmawr (Cairn(s)) by GLADMAN

The two cairns from the west(ish)

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Image of Bwlch east of Moel y Llyn, Ceulanamaesmawr (Cairn(s)) by GLADMAN

What odds this has been a route across these hills as long as people... and proto-people (for want of a better description) have been walking here?

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Image of Bwlch east of Moel y Llyn, Ceulanamaesmawr (Cairn(s)) by GLADMAN

Eastern monument...

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Image of Bwlch east of Moel y Llyn, Ceulanamaesmawr (Cairn(s)) by GLADMAN

Looking across the western to the eastern cairn.

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Image of Bwlch east of Moel y Llyn, Ceulanamaesmawr (Cairn(s)) by GLADMAN

There is a pair of substantial cairns here, that to the east perhaps the more so... and less disturbed.

Image credit: Robert Gladstone

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Image of Bwlch east of Moel y Llyn, Ceulanamaesmawr (Cairn(s)) by GLADMAN

Good to be back upon Pumlumon, albeit her northern ‘foot hills’. Approaching from the east, eyes were naturally fixed upon Moel y Llyn’s prominent cairns towering across the bwlch... but then, hang on... what’s that to the left of the trees?

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Articles

Bwlch east of Moel y Llyn, Ceulanamaesmawr

Cairn(s)

GLADMAN May 13, 2023

Travellers approaching the great cemetery upon Moel y Llyn from the east will, naturally, encounter this ‘bonus’ pair of cairns as a rather splendid hors d’oeuvres.

Coflein reckons:

“One of two closely-spaced cairns located one above the other on the rising south-east side of a col below the eastern slopes of Moel y Llyn, close to a track and a forestry boundary. The lower (westernmost) of the two measures 11m (NE-SW) by 9m and 0.5m high on the uphill side, 2m above the track which passes by on the north-west....” [David Leighton, RCAHMW, 12 June 2012]

Sites within 20km of Bwlch east of Moel y Llyn, Ceulanamaesmawr

Moel y Llyn, Ceulanamaesmawr

Megalithic Cemetery • 0.33km W

19

1
Cerrig Blaencletwr-Fawr (Esgair Foel-ddu)

Round Cairn • 1.27km WNW

8
Pond Nant y Cagal Stones

Standing Stones • 1.7km ESE

4

3
Cylch Derwyddol

Stone Circle • 1.76km WSW

6

3

1
Pen y Foel Goch

Cairn(s) • 2.42km W

20

1
Cae’r Arglwyddes I

Round Cairn • 2.77km W

3

1
Cae’r Arglwyddes II (& the White Stone)

Round Cairn • 3.16km W

11

1
Pen Carreg Gopa

Round Cairn • 3.27km N

5

1
Carn Bwlch Corog

Round Cairn • 3.43km NNE

4

1

1
Carn Owen

Round Cairn • 3.74km SE

13

2
Bedd Taliesin

Chambered Cairn • 4.47km WSW

27

5
Bwlch yr Adwy (Ceulanamaesmawr)

Round Barrow(s) • 4.67km SSE

8

1

1
Cwmere Farm Stone

Standing Stone / Menhir • 4.78km SW

3

2
Pen Craig y Pistyll (Ceulanamaesmawr)

Round Cairn • 5.06km SSE

11

1

1
Pen Dinas (Banc Mynydd Gorddu)

Hillfort • 5.46km SW

16
Carneddau Hafod Wnog

Cairn(s) • 5.57km ENE

11

1
Aber Camddwr Reconstruction

Platform Cairn • 5.7km ESE

4

1

1
Drosgol (Pumlumon)

Cairn(s) • 5.71km ESE

19

2
Twmpath y Crynwyr

Round Cairn • 5.96km NNW

2

1
Banc Llechwedd-mawr (Pumlumon)

Cairn(s) • 6.17km E

23

1

2
Craig-y-Dullfan (Pumlumon)

Cairn(s) • 6.19km E

11

1
Aber Camddwr Ring Cairn

Ring Cairn • 6.26km ESE

1
Nant Maesnant Fach

Cairn(s) • 6.77km ESE

9

1
Cerrig Cyfamod Glyndwr

Stone Row / Alignment • 6.99km E

11

2
Pen-y-Castell Stone

Standing Stone / Menhir • 7.1km SSW

3

1
Disgwylfa Fawr

Round Cairn • 7.18km SE

26

1

3
Pen-y-Castell Hillfort

Hillfort • 7.27km SSW

22

2
Caer Lletty-Llwyd

Hillfort • 7.27km WSW

3

1
Pen Cor-Maen, Pumlumon

Standing Stone / Menhir • 7.27km E

2
Nant-y-Fedwen

Cairn(s) • 7.6km ESE

2

1
Carn Hyddgen (Pumlumon)

Cairn(s) • 7.64km E

37

1

3
Tanybryn-Isaf (Trefeurig)

Round Cairn • 7.67km SSW

3

1

1
Banc Lluest Newydd (Pumlumon)

Cairn(s) • 7.88km E

12

1

2
Garn Wen (Trefeurig)

Round Cairn • 7.96km SSW

8

1

1
Carreg Slic

Standing Stone / Menhir • 7.97km SSE

1
Lle’r Neuaddau Circle

Cairn circle • 7.99km SE

18

3

1
Disgwylfa Fach Stone

Standing Stones • 8.12km SSE

3

2
Caer Allt-Goch

Hillfort • 8.13km WSW

1

1
Garrig Hir

Standing Stone / Menhir • 8.14km S

8

2
Glandwr Stone(s)

Standing Stone / Menhir • 8.2km SSE

2

1
Buwch a’r Llo and Mynydd March

Standing Stones • 8.28km SSE

35

1

3

1
Nant Geifaes

Round Barrow(s) • 8.4km SSE

9

1

1
Y Garnedd

Cairn(s) • 8.43km SE

3
Cerrig yr Wyn

Standing Stones • 8.49km SSW

15

3

1
Hirnant Circle

Kerbed Cairn • 8.51km SE

17

3

2
Dinas (Blaenrheidol)

Hillfort • 8.66km SE

19

1

4
Pen Pumlumon-Fawr

Cairn(s) • 8.67km E

79

1

4

1
Y Garn (Pumlumon)

Round Cairn • 8.76km ESE

21

1
Carn Dolgau

Round Cairn • 8.92km S

9
Esgair Nant-y-Moch

Cairn(s) • 8.99km SSE

5

1
Garn Lwyd Stone and Barrow Cemetery

Barrow / Cairn Cemetery • 9.02km SE

3

1
Esgair Gorlan

Round Cairn • 9.03km SSE

7

1

1
Dinas Hut Circle

Ancient Village / Settlement / Misc. Earthwork • 9.08km SE
Carn March Arthur

Natural Rock Feature • 9.25km WNW

8

2

1
Darren Camp

Hillfort • 9.29km SSW

9

1

2
Banc y Darren

Round Cairn • 9.31km SSW

4

1

1
Penrhyncoch Camp

Hillfort • 9.47km SW

4

1
Mynydd y Llyn

Round Cairn • 9.51km WNW

16

1
Blaen Llywernog

Standing Stones • 9.86km SSE

4

2
Maen Llwyd (Machynlleth)

Standing Stone / Menhir • 9.94km NNE

12

4
Esgair Nant-yr-Arian

Promontory Fort • 9.97km S

11
Eglwys Gwyddelod

Cairn circle • 10.1km WNW

27

3

2
Carn Fawr

Round Cairn • 10.26km E

13

2
Fron y Gog

Hillfort • 10.31km NNE

9
Penrhyn-Coch War Memorial

Standing Stone / Menhir • 10.47km SW

2

2
Pen Pumlumon-Arwystli Cairns

Cairn(s) • 10.59km E

61

2

4
Hen Gaer

Hillfort • 10.92km SW

1

1
Cairn between Bryn Dinas and Allt Gwyddgwion

Cairn(s) • 10.94km WNW

7

1
Carnfachbugeilyn

Round Cairn • 10.95km E

7

2
Ffridd Bryn Dinas

Barrow / Cairn Cemetery • 11.09km WNW

17

1
Capel Maethlon

Round Barrow(s) • 11.13km WNW

4
Cantre’r Gwaelod

Mesolithic site • 11.15km W

12

2

3
Carn Biga

Cairn(s) • 11.51km E

17

2
Trum Gelli

Barrow / Cairn Cemetery • 11.53km WNW

30

1
Gelli (Melindwr)

Round Barrow(s) • 11.6km S

9

1
Carreg Wen

Standing Stone / Menhir • 11.7km E

16

3
Bryn Rhosau

Round Barrow(s) • 11.78km SSE

16

1
Tan-y-Ffordd

Hillfort • 11.97km S

10

1

1
Carreg Llwyd (East)

Standing Stone / Menhir • 12.04km SW

4

1
Castell Bwa-Drain

Hillfort • 12.06km SSE

17

3
Cae y Garreg Lwyd

Natural Rock Feature • 12.07km NE

1
Carreg Llwyd (West)

Standing Stone / Menhir • 12.11km SW

3

1
Capel Bangor Camp

Hillfort • 12.22km SSW

3
Foel Fadian

Round Barrow(s) • 12.33km ENE

11

1
Dolgamfa Circle

Cairn circle • 12.74km SE

19

3
Tarrenhendre

Round Cairn • 12.78km NW

26

3
Ysbyty Cynfyn

Christianised Site • 12.9km SE

21

1

2

5

1
Garreg Lwyd (Fronwen)

Natural Rock Feature • 12.97km NNE

1
Foel Caethle

Hillfort • 12.99km W

2
Bryn y Fedwen

Round Barrow(s) • 13km ENE

11

1
Pen-y-Felin Wynt

Hillfort • 13.7km S

3

1
Bwlch-y-Crwys

Round Barrow(s) • 13.97km S

1
Maen Llwyd (Rhos Dyrnog)

Standing Stone / Menhir • 14.3km NE

3

2
Fron Goch Camp

Hillfort • 14.43km NE

10

1
Fron Ddu

Round Cairn • 14.62km S

3
Devil’s Punch Bowl

Natural Rock Feature • 14.75km SSE

5

1
Moelfre (Glantwymyn)

Round Barrow(s) • 14.82km ENE

6

1

1
Mynydd Pentre

Cairn(s) • 14.85km NW

7

2
Cwmbiga

Long Cairn • 14.93km E

18

3
Croes Faen

Standing Stone / Menhir • 15.44km WNW

6

3
Y Garreg Fawr

Burial Chamber • 15.7km SW

7

1

3
St Cadfan’s churchyard, Tywyn

Stone Row / Alignment • 15.82km WNW

5

1
Old Warren Hillfort

Hillfort • 16.31km SW

11

2
Staylittle

Barrow / Cairn Cemetery • 16.38km ENE

30

3
Craig yr Aderyn cairn

Cairn(s) • 16.47km NW

16

1

1
Carn Nant-y-Llys

Cairn(s) • 16.6km SE

9

1

1
Craig yr Aderyn (Crag-top enclosure)

Ancient Village / Settlement / Misc. Earthwork • 16.62km NW

10
Maen Llwyd (Commins Coch)

Standing Stone / Menhir • 16.67km NE

3

2
Craig-yr-Aderyn

Hillfort • 16.81km NW

42

1

3

1
Graig Gethin

Cairn(s) • 16.92km E

5

1
Penycerrig

Cairn(s) • 16.97km E

1
Caerberllan Farm

Standing Stone / Menhir • 17.26km NW

10

3
Pendinas (Aberystwyth)

Hillfort • 17.35km SW

41

1

6

2
Cnwc y Bugail

Hillfort • 17.77km S

9
Waen Fach

Standing Stone / Menhir • 17.94km WNW

13

3
Tal-y-Llyn

18.01km NNW

6

1

3
Castell Disgwylfa

Hillfort • 18.1km S

9
Tal y Garreg and Llechlwyd

Hillfort • 18.53km WNW

7

1
Carnedd Fach

Cairn(s) • 18.72km ESE

1
Copa Hill

Ancient Mine / Quarry • 18.82km ESE

1

1

3

3
Carn Bwlch y Cloddiau

Cairn(s) • 18.84km ESE

5

1
Allt Lwyd

Cairn(s) • 18.95km WNW

24

2
Castle Grogwynion

Hillfort • 19.07km SSE

10

2
Dinas (Trefeglwys)

Cliff Fort • 19.07km E

11
Ffos Gau

Kerbed Cairn • 19.17km ESE

6

1
Cae’r Mynach

Cairn(s) • 19.21km WNW

4

1
Pen-y-Gaer, Llanidloes

Hillfort • 19.74km E

19

4