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Image of Ffridd Fron, Y Rhinogydd (Kerbed Cairn) by GLADMAN

I’d been hanging out for a couple of hours before the blindingly obvious point finally dawned upon me: the cist is aligned upon the summit cairn(s) of Rhinog Fawr. Exquisite.

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Image of Ffridd Fron, Y Rhinogydd (Kerbed Cairn) by GLADMAN

Looking towards Rhinog Fawr, actually crowned by at least one Bronze Age cairn of its own....

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Image of Ffridd Fron, Y Rhinogydd (Kerbed Cairn) by GLADMAN

Moel Goedog and all sorts of other ‘stoney stuff’ is that-a-way

Image credit: Robert Gladstone
Image of Ffridd Fron, Y Rhinogydd (Kerbed Cairn) by GLADMAN

I have to say I was blown away by this exquisite monument. Clip rises beyond... not had the pleasure to date.

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Image of Ffridd Fron, Y Rhinogydd (Kerbed Cairn) by GLADMAN

Cairn circle or kerbed cairn? Take away the cairn and surely this would be a small stone circle?

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Image of Ffridd Fron, Y Rhinogydd (Kerbed Cairn) by GLADMAN

Just goes to show one never truly knows what’s lying in obscurity upon the Welsh uplands.

Image credit: Robert Gladstone
Image of Ffridd Fron, Y Rhinogydd (Kerbed Cairn) by GLADMAN

The fabulous carn circle/kerbed cairn lies to the right of the animal feeder thingy, bottom left...

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An extended sojourn at the exquiste kerbed cairn/cairn circle of Ffridd Fron overlooking Cwm Bychan, deep within the heart of Y Rhinogydd.

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Ffridd Fron, Y Rhinogydd
Kerbed Cairn

Every now and then The Citizen Cairn has to confess to being flabbergasted as to how such exquisitely tangible reminders of our Prehistoric forebears can remain so off the radar of this hi-tech world... hey, when military satellites can recognise a face from orbit, how can it be that this largely intact kerbed cairn overlooking the popular Cwm Bychan does not appear upon OS mapping... nor feature upon Coflein records? Indeed, the monument was apparently only scheduled by CADW in 2003...

Yeah, this is indeed the ‘real deal’, perfectly complementing the equally fabulous – yet far more well known – Bryn Cader Faner to northeast and Rhyd-yr-Eirin to approx southwest... not to mention the excellent Moel Goedog ‘circles. The location is, if anything, even better than its illustrious neighbours... magnificently ‘rugged’ with Rhinog Fawr itself looming to the approx southeast (the cairn’s fine cist is aligned upon the mountain’s summit cairns), the starkly brutal rock strata of the northern Rhinogydd to the east.... a terrain to take lightly at your peril.

Ironically, a sojourn at such an obscure monument as this is achieved without an excess of effort: a stroll up the access track to Cwm-mawr farm, followed by a short diversion (through an open field gate) from the footpath climbing the hillside beyond. I guess one just has to know it’s there, eh? Well, now you do.

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