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The ridge walk to Mynydd Llysiau, from Pen Trumau to the north. The Sugarloaf can be seen on the left, Pen Cerrig-calch and Pen Allt-mawr straight ahead.

Pen Twyn Glas, seen from Mynydd Llysiau. The rounded bulk of Pen Cerrig-calch rises directly behind, the summit of Pen Allt-mawr is obscured by rain on the right. Both of these latter peaks boast multiple bronze age cairns.

Mynydd Troed from Mynydd Llysiau.

The view SE from Pen Twyn Glas towards Pen y Fal (The Sugarloaf).

The steep-sided Moel Gyw, seen from the north. The barrow can just be seen on the summit.

The heather-clad earthwork.

Looking north into the adjacent forestry.

Looking south along the dyke.

In its hillside setting. The remains of a low field boundary can be seen in the foreground. The Drum ridge is engulfed in cloud on the skyline.

Deliberate or otherwise, the lean on the stone is pretty alarming.

This is a slender and shapely stone.

Use as a rubbing stone has worn away the packing at the base.

Endearingly potato-esque stone.

Looking across the valley to Pen-y-Gaer hillfort.

Drum disappears in the clouds.

Drystone walling inside the chamber.

The (hazy) view from the chamber.

We disturbed the residents...

Cerrig-y-Ddinas (centre) and the Conwy valley from Cefn Maen Amor to the west.

The tiny stones are almost covered in heather. Looking SE.

Looking out to Conwy Bay – Great Orme can be seen from here to the right, but is near-invisible in the haze.

What we took to be two of the diminutive stones of the circle, left and centre foreground.

Situated at over 400m OD, the stone looks down to the Conwy Valley. The conical top of Cerrig-y-Ddinas hillfort can be seen on the left.

Looking towards the summit of Tal-y-Fan (left).

Looking approx. NE, the stone is surrounded by gorse-covered outcrops.

With Tal-y-Fan mountain behind.

What an excellent stone this is.

Stripey. The banding is caused by use of the stone as a rubbing post.

Looking out over the Conwy Valley.

The stone with hillforted Cerrig y Ddinas behind.

The tallest stone of the circle.

Tal-y-Fan fills the skyline to the southwest.

The southern arc, looking towards the rocky Cerrig y Ddinas hillfort. The Conwy Valley falls away beyond.

Looking NW across the circle.

Approaching the circle from the south. Note sheep making full use of ideally placed rubbing stone.

The rocky Cerrig-y-Ddinas from Tyddyn-grasod to the NW.

The fence cuts straight across the barrow.

Looking down on Afon Dyfi.

Looking south – Pumlumon can be seen on the left.

The round barrow with modern cairn on top. The Tarren Hills continue to the west, Afon Dyfi winds its way through the valley to the sea, over on the left.

Tarrenhendre from Foel y Geifr (“Bare Rounded Hill of the Goats”) on the ridge walk to the southeast.

Cadair Idris from the summit of Tarren y Gesail to the south, across the Dysynni valley. Mynydd Moel is the peak on the right of the central bulk of the mountain. Far right is Gau Graig, the most north-easterly peak of the Cadair Idris massif, crowned with a probable prehistoric enclosure. The summit of Arenig Fawr can be seen over the top of the ridge between the two. The distant peak far right is, I think, Rhobell Fawr.

Tarrenhendre from the southern slopes of Tarren y Gesail. From here there’s a great view of the fine ridge walk between the two mountains (just don’t attempt any short-cuts directly through the dense forestry).

The volcanic Breiddins, seen from the bank of Afon Hafren to the SW.

Seen from the west, the naturally steep hillside rising almost vertically from the floodplain below is a formidable sight.

Long zoom, from Offa’s Dyke Path to the ENE.

Breiddin Hill from Offa’s Dyke Path to the northwest.