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

SN63869959.... highlighting the modest cairn; cut through by a fenceline

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

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Tumulus cist; hands by a firm which will be going out of business very soon...

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

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Gale strength winds.... but exquisite lighting.

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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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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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GLADMAN Jan 16, 2018

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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