Trum Gelli on the skyline, seen across Llyn Barfog to the south. The eastern Mynydd y Llyn cairn is on top of the outcroppy hill rising on the right of the lake. I took the hill on the left skyline to be Bryn Dinas, which has further Bronze Age cairns.
The small cairn, looking west. The eastern arc suggests the cairn had a kerb.
The small cairn above the circle.
Quartz frills on the outcrop above the circle.
What a pleasure to be back here without the rain.
Looking ESE. The track is waterlogged, somehow I doubt it’s ever dry.
The flat-topped northern stone and its boulder friend.
From the southeast. Very different weather to my previous visit.
Upright boulder just to the south of the circle, boasting an even better view of the Mawddach estuary and Cader Idris.
Ordnance Survey benchmark incised in one of the stones across the field from the circle.
Towards Diffwys and Y Garn, the southern peaks of Y Rhinogydd.
Looking across the circle towards Cader Idris.
Looking back towards Aran Fawddwy, looking a long way away now.
Looking west towards the skyline Rhinogydd. The structure built into the centre of the cairn is a ruined shooting butt.
With the wonderful profile of Cader Idris on the right.
Western cairn, looking east towards Pen y Brynfforchog, with Glasgwm to the left. The eastern ring cairn is somewhere in the near-distance, but I didn’t look for it.
Western cairn, looking north towards Rhobell Fawr.
The western cairn, looking south towards the Dyfi hills.
Aran Fawddwy seen from Glasgwm to the south. The intervening ground is mostly a bog, crossed by a hilariously rotting series of narrow planks which threaten to snap, or tip the unwary into black depths.
Aran Fawddwy, with Creiglyn Dyfi nestling below. From Drws Bach to the south.
Looking east along Llaethnant, the nascent Afon Dyfi. Buffeting winds kept me from getting any closer to the drop.
Looking north towards Aran Benllyn, quite the contrast to the zero visibility as I slogged over that mountain an hour earlier.
Looking towards the unmistakable profile of Cader Idris, right skyline.
The cairn is built onto some massive outcrops.
First sight of the cairn after climbing the ridge, as the morning fog finally lifted.
The probable cairn that we hadn’t seen on the previous visits. To the north of the others, this is presumably cairn IV.
The new-to-us cairn, looking across Watch House Bay.
Denuded rim of a likely cairn to the north of the cairns we’d found previously.
Looking south over the earthwork. Banc y Celyn on the right, the tops of the Black Mountains just visible on the skyline to the left of centre.
Looking northwest up the Gwy/Wye valley over Builth Wells. I think the skyline must be the Elenydd mountains.
Looking northeast. The Radnor Forest mountains (centre skyline) are framed between the Carneddau on the left and Aberedw Hill on the right; all of which have a array of archaeology.
The trig is adorned by a Bronze Age classical Greek warrior, for some reason.
The earthwork at the south of the enclosure. Looking east over the Gwy/Wye to Aberedw Hill.
Approaching the hilltop enclosure along the ridge from the southwest.
Looking down on Garth while descending from Banc y Celyn to the south.
General view east across the circle. The Afon Gwy/Wye is out of sight below.
Shattered slab in the southern arc, looking towards the top of the hill. The slab isn’t set radially in an alignment with the arc, as might have been expected. There’s also a couple of half-buried flat slabs close by, which may be displaced and fallen circle stones.