Southeastern rampart. Mynydd y Cwm is the wooded hill ahead. Marian Ffrith which has round barrows is the grassy hill on the left.
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The entrance gap cut through the eastern rampart, giving a nice section of the stone and earth bank.
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Section of the inner eastern rampart, looking NE. St Elmo’s Summerhouse barrows are on the skyline hill at the far right of shot.
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Looking down on the southern rampart from the highest part of the hill.
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Inside the fort looking north towards Prestatyn and the coast.
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Looking from the southern barrow (which may be the mound in the immediate foreground) towards the northern barrow, which is on the hilltop ahead.
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The southern barrow is somewhere amongst the yellow-flowering gorse on the next hill. More impressively, the dark shape brooding ahead is Moel Hiraddug, the site of an IA hillfort.
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The yellow lichen on the stone’s top.
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The thinner western edge.
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Looking SE towards Pen y Fan and Corn Du.
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Another view of the stone, looking NE towards the cairn (in the scrub straight ahead).
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Lichen and moss covering the exposed tops.
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The exposed stones. Difficult to see a ring cairn here.
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The two exposed stones, looking towards the central Beacons.
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Approaching from the NE. The cairn lies in the scrubby area on the far side of the pond.
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Seen from the SW, showing the lean.
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Looking SE to Pen y Fan and Corn Du.
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A nice example of urban prehistory.
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The beautifully tapering slab.
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Looking towards Pen Allt-mawr and Pen Cerrig-calch.
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Carreg Waun Llech and the Sugarloaf.
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Close up of texture, like The Scream through a broken mirror.
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Looking towards the Black Mountains.
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Looking across the cairnfield from the east. Multiple cairns in picture.
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Looking across the cairnfield to the Sugarloaf. One of the small cairns is in the foreground, several more are behind.
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The ring cairn, looking towards Garn Caws on the skyline. The stones of the ring are mostly turfed over and the form is disguised by the stones dumped in the middle.
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The SW round cairn, looking NW towards Tor y Foel.
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The SW round cairn, looking north to the Black Mountains backdrop.
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Seen from the south-east, below Chwar Blaenonneu. The cairn is visible as a prominent bump on top of the ridge, left side of image.
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The hollowed centre of the cairn, looking west towards the central Beacons. The summit of Pen y Fan is just visible over Waun Rydd.
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Cairn I, with panoramic backdrop of the Black Mountains.
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Cairn I, looking towards Waun Rydd and Tor y Foel.
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Cairn I, with Garn Caws on the high point behind.
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The top of ‘number 6’, showing some visible stonework (Sugar Loaf in the background).
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‘Number 6’, a low, broad mound on a little summit ENE of Garn Caws.
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‘Number 3’, showing the possible perimeter kerb.
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‘Number 3’ on Gladman’s list, looking towards the Black Mountains.
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Close up of part of the low bank of the ring cairn (number 4).
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Located immediately SW of ‘number 5’, this would be the ring cairn (number 4).
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