Ffridd Bryn Dinas

Also known as:
Bryn Dinas, Y Tarenau
Nearest town:
Tywyn (5km W)
OS reference:
SN63989969
OS sheet:
135
Latitude:
52° 34' 39.35 N
Longitude:
4° 0' 27.28 W
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Image of Ffridd Bryn Dinas (Barrow / Cairn Cemetery) by GLADMAN

The golden cist at SN63869959.... note I’m still awaiting confirmation from Jean-Jacques Burnel that this is what the lads had in mind. Who’d have thought it?

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Image of Ffridd Bryn Dinas (Barrow / Cairn Cemetery) by GLADMAN

The excellent cist within its minimalist cairn at SN63869959.... note the exquisite relative positioning of the tumulus beyond.

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Image of Ffridd Bryn Dinas (Barrow / Cairn Cemetery) by GLADMAN

Tumulus cist... as the late, great – not to mention funky – Errol Brown sang... there’s ‘no doubt about it’.

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Looking across the summit of the tumulus to Trum Gelli, itself bearing a number of very large Bronze Age cairns.

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Image of Ffridd Bryn Dinas (Barrow / Cairn Cemetery) by GLADMAN

This is the ‘Tumulus’ at SN63989969.... an apparent round barrow with the confirmed (by mine own eyes and hands) remnants of a cist

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Ffridd Bryn Dinas
Barrow / Cairn Cemetery
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Ffridd Bryn Dinas (’Ffridd’ might be described as being the transitional zone between traditional Welsh upland and lowland) is an interesting, relatively minor ridge overlooking Cwm Maethlon – ‘Happy Valley’ – boasting some excellent, sweeping views across the Dyfi for (arguably) limited effort. Not to mention the opportunity to gawp at a certain bearded lake. I ask you?

It also possesses two Bronze Age monuments. According to Coflein:

“Originally (1921) this site was reported as two tumuli, with another reported near-by, all three having cists. Subsequently they were differentiated as a round barrow (SN63989969) and a cairn (SN63869959), with the third not located.” J.Wiles 30.01.02

For what it’s worth I agree with the above succinct statement. To a point. The north-eastern ‘tumulus’ is, for me, the finer of the pair, a steep sided mound just north of a traverse wire fence bearing the clear remains of a cist upon, or rather within, the summit. A great spot to recline for awhile with the low autumn sun playing upon the nearby llyn. The other, to the approx south-west, has much less ‘tumulus’, but much more cist still in situ.

But what of ‘the third not located’? Could that not be what I took to be a cairn with remains of cist upon the bwlch between Bryn Dinas and Allt Gwyddgwion?

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