Sites within Craig Twrch (Cynwyl Gaeo)

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Image of Craig Twrch (Cynwyl Gaeo) (Barrow / Cairn Cemetery) by GLADMAN

Approx centre of the wondrous be-cairned ridge, looking from Caer Maurice. Esgair Fraith is to the right, with the massive Carn Fawr out of sight beyond the trees to the left..

Image credit: Robert Gladstone
Image of Craig Twrch (Cynwyl Gaeo) (Barrow / Cairn Cemetery) by GLADMAN

Looking back to the summit cairn across a pair of small cairns to the south..

Image credit: Robert Gladstone
Image of Craig Twrch (Cynwyl Gaeo) (Barrow / Cairn Cemetery) by GLADMAN

Pair of small cairns beside the track to the south.. the cist-bearing cairn lies just beyond within the long grass

Image credit: Robert Gladstone
Image of Craig Twrch (Cynwyl Gaeo) (Barrow / Cairn Cemetery) by GLADMAN

The cairn sits right upon the edge of the Craig Twrch’s summit outcrops

Image credit: Robert Gladstone

Articles

There are several cairns here of various shapes and sizes... keep an eye for moles though. Didn’t see them myself, but pretty tough little blighters, or so I’ve heard.

Miscellaneous

Craig Twrch (Cynwyl Gaeo)
Barrow / Cairn Cemetery

As with its neighbour surmounting Bryn Mawr, the cairn crowning the summit crags of Craig Twrch has been substantially messed about with by fools with no regard for who they are... where they are from... and, presumably, where they are going. However, unlike Bryn Mawr’s poor monument, the great circular footprint can still be readily discerned here.

Furthermore, the enclosure and particularly large marker cairn created from the stone pile (arguably) do possess a kinda dodgy charm. The positioning is excellent, the monument perched upon – and encroaching upon the edge of – impressive rocky crags, this reminding the impressed visit somewhat of, say, a Dartmoor ‘tor cairn’?

The monument overlooks a number of other, smaller cairns, like Mother Hen watching over her brood. One, however, located just off the main path beyond the fence line to the south, is quite unexpectedly probably the finest – after Carn Fawr, obviously – upon the whole ridge, bearing the well preserved remains of a cist.

Sites within 20km of Craig Twrch (Cynwyl Gaeo)