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Image of Brynmelyn Quarry (Round Cairn) by thesweetcheat

Looking east. The distant hill on the skyline to the right is Craig y Llyn, the highest hill in South Wales outside the Bannau Brycheiniog National Park.

Image credit: A. Brookes (7.10.2023)
Image of Brynmelyn Quarry (Round Cairn) by thesweetcheat

I think the hill on the far right skyline is Tair Carn Isaf, which has some very impressive cairns.

Image credit: A. Brookes (7.10.2023)
Image of Brynmelyn Quarry (Round Cairn) by thesweetcheat

The low remains of the cairn from the east. The toppled trig pillar can be seen behind on the right.

Image credit: A. Brookes (7.10.2023)

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Brynmelyn Quarry
Round Cairn

GGAT description:

Situated just below local summit. Heap of stones, mainly rounded pieces of quartzite 0.3m across (commoners report that stone in immediate vicinity is slabby, so this must have been brought in). The edges of the monument are unclear; overgrown with grass. c7.2m diameter; c0.2m high GGAT 72 Prehistoric Funerary and Ritual Sites survey 2001.

If approaching from the east, whether or not you’ve attempted to seek out the Pen-y-Dderi cairn in its bog, you’ll pass a modern standing stone memorial to John Dyfnallt Owen, Archdruid of the National Eisteddfod of Wales (1954 – 1956).

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