Cwm Shelkin

Also known as:
Mynydd Llangorse (South)
Nearest town:
Crickhowell (9km ESE)
OS reference:
SO15652553
OS sheet:
161
Latitude:
51° 55' 17.16 N
Longitude:
3° 13' 36.05 W
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Image of Cwm Shelkin (Cairn(s)) by GLADMAN

Needless to say Pen Allt-Mawr (horizon) possesses a couple of large cairns of its own

Image credit: Robert Gladstone
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GLADMAN Mar 15, 2017
Image of Cwm Shelkin (Cairn(s)) by GLADMAN

Looking approx north toward the summit of Mynydd Llangorse... no cairn there, although there is a promontory fort beyond.... with a chambered cairn beneath.

Image credit: Robert Gladstone
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GLADMAN Mar 15, 2017
Image of Cwm Shelkin (Cairn(s)) by GLADMAN

Highlighting – albeit not very elegantly – what I took to be clear remnants of a kerb still in situ.

Image credit: Robert Gladstone
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GLADMAN Mar 15, 2017
Image of Cwm Shelkin (Cairn(s)) by GLADMAN

Looking approx east toward The Black Mountains... Pen y Gadair Fawr – apparently the summit peak, although reality can be deceptive – is centre left skyline, crowned by a monument of it own.

Image credit: Robert Gladstone
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GLADMAN Mar 15, 2017
Image of Cwm Shelkin (Cairn(s)) by GLADMAN

Coflein lists this cairn under ‘Cwm Shelkin’... although it sits upon the southern flank of Mynydd Llangorse. Nomenclature issues notwithstanding, the monument certainly appears to retain a capstone and evidence of former kerbing. Here we look south toward the site of a number of other cairns, according to the map.

Image credit: Robert Gladstone
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GLADMAN Mar 15, 2017

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Cwm Shelkin
Cairn(s)
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GLADMAN Jan 20, 2018

A visit to this otherwise unremarkable cairn – if the final resting place of a forebear can ever be described as such, of course – is enlivened by what appeared to me to be clear remnants of a former cist and kerb. It would seem the OS people tentatively concur:

“A denuded cairn, 6.0m in diameter and 0.5m high, with possible cist elements and kerbing.” J.Wiles 15.08.02

Situated upon the southern end of Mynydd Llangorse’s whaleback summit ridge there are some fine views to be had of surrounding peaks, not to mention the excellent hill fort occupying Allt Yr Esgair across the way.

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