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The small enclosure, looking NE.

Garn Felen II. Garn Felen III can be seen on the opposite hillside. The two bigger summit cairns are hidden from view, set back from the edge of escarpment.

Garn Felen II, looking north.

Garn Felen II, seen from Cefn yr Ystrad summit. The shape of the turfed-over doughnut is clear from here, with only the bottom edge of stonework clear of vegetation and slipping down the slope.

The top of Garn Felen III.

Twisted aluminium makes for a sobering memorial, next to Garn Felen.

Garn Felen III. The cairn is an artificial enhancement of a natural knoll at the tip of the ridge.

Carn y Bugail (left) and Garn Felen (right).

Garn Felen (left) and Garn Felen III (right). in between, the unmistakable peaks of Corn Du, Pen y Fan and Cribyn.

Carn y Bugail, looking southeast-ish.

The disturbed top of Carn y Bugail.

L-R: The slopes of Allt Lwyd on the skyline; the mound of Garn Felen III; Garn Felen I cairn; the western edge of the Black Mountains fading into blue on the right. From Carn y Bugail.

The massive Carn y Bugail (“Cairn of the Shepherd”).

The north cairn, looking towards Pen y Fan and Cribyn.

The robbed out north cairn.

View NW from Abercriban, towards the central Beacons across Pontsticill Reservoir. The cairns are over on the right, above the treeline.

The low remains of the round barrow adjacent to the long barrow on the SE.

The barrow from the east.

Seen from the north (the mound is oriented NW/SE).

The leaning slabs are being used as rubbing posts, judging by the churned up ground. Unfortunately this is damaging the southern end of the mound.

The huge slabs remaining of the chamber.

The profile from the SW.

The remaining uprights of the terminal cairn circle. Corringdon Ball long barrow can be seen on the skyline.

A section of the multiple rows, with the cairn circle beyond to the left and the long barrow silhouetted on the skyline.

Looking SW towards Glasscombe Ball.

Looking NE along one of the microlithic rows.

Cairn 4, lying to the NE of the row.

The stone scatter that is all that remains of a NE terminal cairn.

The two small cairns on the south side of the row.

Looking SW from the end of the single row to the double row.

Looking NE along the double section of the row.

Looking south across the row, towards Ugborough Beacon.

The ravaged eastern cairn.

Visible slabs, looking south.

Visible stones in the body of the cairn.

The long cairn from the southeast. Difficult to fully make out shape in the vegetation.

In summer vegetation.

Looking across the chamber to the fertile farmland below. The capstone or roof slabs are missing.

Looking NE towards Ugborough Beacon.

The remaining slabs of the chamber.

Large, walker-vandalised, cairn at SX65475768, looking towards Plymouth Sound.

Well-preserved cairn at SX65435762, looking NE towards Ugborough Beacon.

The row in the summer undergrowth.

One of the diminuitive stones of the row, with smaller stones just visible beyond.

The largest stone, at the SW end of the row.

Carn Pica in its landscape (right of picture) on the Waun Rydd escarpment. Seen from Twyn Du to the east.

Looking northeast towards Llangorse Lake, with the Black Mountains behind.

The nicely restored “beehive” cairn, looking down on Talybont reservoir and Tor y Foel.

Approaching from the west, looking towards the Sugar Loaf/Pen y Fal.

Landscape context from Allt Lwyd to the south-east. The cairn is at the far end of the escarpment, right.