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Image of Llethr Brith (Round Cairn) by GLADMAN

Toward the empty heartlands of Cwmdeuddwr...

Image credit: Robert Gladstone
Image of Llethr Brith (Round Cairn) by GLADMAN

The cairn is desecrated by some embedded fencing residue – way to go, land owner – but is clealy still hanging in there. Yeah, way to go, Welsh heritage... despite wanton mismanagement!

Image credit: Robert Gladstone
Image of Llethr Brith (Round Cairn) by GLADMAN

Lookin approx north across the disturbed – yet very substantial – footprint toward distant Pumlumon... so, so much more going on there.

Image credit: Robert Gladstone
Image of Llethr Brith (Round Cairn) by GLADMAN

Final approach from the Teifi Pools road to the approx south-east... the quartzite-topped modern cairn surmounting the extensive ancient base highlight’s the cairn’s position (centre right skyline)

Image credit: Robert Gladstone

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Llethr Brith
Round Cairn

At c1,722ft Llethr Brith is a reasonably hefty hill for Mid Wales and, in my opinion, well worth a visit in its own right simply for some excellent views toward Teifi Pools, Cwmdeuddwr and, as it happens, Pen y Bannau hill fort. That it is crowned by a substantial, if somewhat vandalised Bronze Age cairn is, as they say, a bonus.

A dead-end minor road heads east from the B4343 at Ffair-Rhos allowing punters access to the shores of the aforementioned Teifi Pools. Just after some enclosed fields to one’s left a path can be discerned ascending the hillside... follow this and ‘up’ is the only real direction needed, to be fair.

According to the OS the cairn, sharing the summit with a lonely little tarn is:

“A round cairn, 14m in diameterb & 0.5m high, having a modern marker cairn set upon its E side.” J.Wiles 26.07.04

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