Esgair Nant-y-Moch

Nearest town:
Aberystwyth (15km WSW)
OS reference:
SN73248272
OS sheet:
135
Latitude:
52° 25' 38.43 N
Longitude:
3° 51' 52.28 W
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Image of Esgair Nant-y-Moch (Cairn(s)) by GLADMAN

Looking more-or-less due north from Esgair Nant-y-Moch. The Nant Geifaes cairn can be seen, centre right, to the immediate left of the enclosure. No prizes for guessing where the stone for THAT came from....

Image credit: Robert Gladstone
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Image of Esgair Nant-y-Moch (Cairn(s)) by GLADMAN

Looking approx north to the enigmatic ‘Watching Place’, Disgwylfa Fawr, its summit wreathed in mist. The hillfort Dinas rises far right..

Image credit: Robert Gladstone
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GLADMAN Jan 30, 2024
Image of Esgair Nant-y-Moch (Cairn(s)) by GLADMAN

This looked pretty convincing to me, to be fair. The eastern summit of Esgair Golan, bearing a larger monument, lies beyond (the western summit across the byway also features a cairn, or so I understand)

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Esgair Nant-y-Moch
Cairn(s)
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GLADMAN Jan 30, 2024

Lying to the east of the reasonably substantial cairn upon the (eastern) summit of Esgair Golan (SN72848261), this is a rather more modest monument, one of a possible trio surmounting this little ridge. Then again, perhaps the multiplicity hints at natural features?

Whatever the truth, this is well worth including in a circular walk from the roadside beneath – and featuring – the cairn overlooking the Nant Geifaes at SN73188331.

Coflein reckons:

“Remains of former cairn approx. 4m in diameter x 0.60m high. Consists of piled stone now grass and turf covered. Remains of cist visible formed by 3 slabs and 1 upright slab” [R.S. Jones, Cambrian Archaeological Projects, 2004].

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