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Image of Carn y Groes (Round Cairn) by GLADMAN

Esgair Clochfan is located ‘around the corner’ near the distant forestry line – with a soggy interlude en route.

Image credit: Robert Gladstone
Image of Carn y Groes (Round Cairn) by GLADMAN

Looking roughly south toward Blaen Clawdd Du. There is just so much going on upon these deceptively benign Cwmdeuddwr Hills. The footprint is hopefully self-explanatory.

Image credit: Robert Gladstone
Image of Carn y Groes (Round Cairn) by GLADMAN

The overcast, misty conditions thankfully didn’t persist.... or else I would’ve seriously considered aborting the continuation to Esgair Clochfan. These are not hills to take lightly.

Image credit: Robert Gladstone
Image of Carn y Groes (Round Cairn) by GLADMAN

Quite a decent monument, more so than I was expecting.

Image credit: Robert Gladstone
Image of Carn y Groes (Round Cairn) by GLADMAN

A large modern marker cairn surmounts what is, to be fair, a pretty obvious prehistoric footprint, given the context.

Image credit: Robert Gladstone

Articles

The prehistoric footprint evident in the locale of the Mid Walian market town of Rhayader is much, much more extensive than many people perhaps realise. This horseshoe walk visits three of the arguably more obscure monuments.

Miscellaneous

Carn y Groes
Round Cairn

CPAT (PRN: 1513) have this to say about this deceptively substantial cairn, scheduled in 2004:

“Artificial mound c. 9m diameter x 0.8m high, on which are what appear to be kerbstones defining a cairn 5.5m in diameter X 0.4m high, offset to south east side of the mound. A large modern cairn at west side of the Bronze Age cairn is c. 1.5m high x 2.2m diameter. Bronze Age cairn is in good condition although damaged by construction of the modern cairn. The kerb and much of the interior appear to be intact. Situated on local summit with good views to south and east”

Sites within 20km of Carn y Groes