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Image of Moel Goedog East (Cairn circle) by thesweetcheat

South towards the prominent Moelfre, which is topped with a substantial round cairn.

Image credit: A. Brookes (10.11.2021)
Image of Moel Goedog East (Cairn circle) by thesweetcheat

Across the Dwyryd estuary towards Moel y Gest and the mountains of western Snowdonia.

Image credit: A. Brookes (10.11.2021)
Image of Moel Goedog East (Cairn circle) by thesweetcheat

Looking southwest towards Foel Senigl, along the spiderweb highway to the sun.

Image credit: A. Brookes (10.11.2021)
Image of Moel Goedog East (Cairn circle) by thesweetcheat

Looking across the Dwyryd estuary towards Moel y Gest. The large boulder on the right of the ring appears to be a recent incomer, as it’s not visible in the earlier TMA photos of the site.

Image credit: A. Brookes (21.5.2016)
Image of Moel Goedog East (Cairn circle) by thesweetcheat

Looking southwest towards Foel Senigl, which despite being a prominent landscape feature from all these sites below Moel Goedog has no monument of its own.

Image credit: A. Brookes (21.5.2016)
Image of Moel Goedog East (Cairn circle) by thesweetcheat

Moel Goedog east, unlike its partner this one is unexcavated and unrestored.

Image credit: A. Brookes (21.5.2016)
Image of Moel Goedog East (Cairn circle) by postman

Looking down on Moel Goedog’s two cairn circles.

Image credit: Chris Bickerton

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Moel Goedog East

The cairn lies to the E of the track and is not visible from Moel Goedog West. The ring is ca 6m wide and contains ca 15 stones, most of which are short and fat.

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Moel Goedog East
Cairn circle

Frances Lynch in A Guide to Ancient and Historic Wales: Gwynedd gives the following:
“A cairn of large boulders set on the inner edge of a low grass-grown stone bank forms a circle 6.5m in diameter. The centre is hollowed and probably artificially levelled. there has been no excavation here, so one cannot tell what or who was buried, nor whether it was built at exactly the same time as the lower circle. However, the circles’ complementary setting in the landscape – one being visible from the south, the other from the north – would suggest that they were designed as a pair. The very large stone on the south side may be an earthfast boulder; the incorporation of a natural feature is quite common in monuments of this kind (see Cefn Caer Euni Circles).”

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