Garn Wen (Trefeurig)

Nearest town:
Aberystwyth (11km WSW)
OS reference:
SN68518421
OS sheet:
135
Latitude:
52° 26' 22.6 N
Longitude:
3° 56' 4.7 W
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Image of Garn Wen (Trefeurig) (Round Cairn) by GLADMAN

And to think we’ve got a myriad myopic muppets jumping up and down regarding what’s occurring on Salisbury Plain....

Image credit: Robert Gladstone
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Image of Garn Wen (Trefeurig) (Round Cairn) by GLADMAN

Arguably the image showing the clearest form..

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Image of Garn Wen (Trefeurig) (Round Cairn) by GLADMAN

The tree cover lends the site a somewhat surreal vibe..

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Image of Garn Wen (Trefeurig) (Round Cairn) by GLADMAN

From the approx south (I think)... it would appear the yellow marker indicates the route of some orienteering path, or other... not the cairn.

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Garn Wen (Trefeurig)
Round Cairn
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GLADMAN Nov 15, 2023

This, another of Wales’ ‘White Cairns’, is almost completely subsumed within seemingly impenetrable forestry covering a minor hilltop to the west of Pumlumon. So much so that The Citizen Cairn admits to having a pretty hard time locating it, despite the monument apparently being some 50ft across. However, all’s well that ends well, as they say. If not exactly ‘all-white’.

Yeah, despite – or perhaps because of – the difficulty reaching the cairn, the intense woodland vibe, amplified many times over by whatever it is that these prehistoric sites do to the receptive human psyche, has me doing mental cartwheels in short order. Indeed, one supposes the proverbial ‘knife’ would make little impression upon the atmosphere to be found here. Bring a chainsaw. No, on second thoughts, don’t! And to think we’ve a myriad myopic muppets jumping up and down on Salisbury Plain... presumably, Pumlumon doesn’t feature upon Papa’s Range Rover’s sat nav?

Coflein doesn’t have a lot to say:

“A much disturbed round cairn, 15m in diameter & 1.5m high, set upon the highest point of a ridge.” [J.Wiles 23.07.04]

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