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Looking down to the Dwyryd estuary and Moel y Gest.

Chris paces the diameter in megalithic yards.

Looking east across the site towards Y Gyrn.

Some substantial masonry in the outermost wall.

Looking down on Maes y Caerau from Y Gyrn, with the Dwyryd estuary beyond. Moel y Gest can be seen through the gloom across the river to the left of centre, above the Italianate uber-folly of Portmeirion.

From the southwest.

The scene turned nearly monochrome.

Looking SSW, the sun briefly lighting the slopes of Moel y Geifr.

The dark ridges of the Rhinogydd glower down on the monument.

The enclosed group, overlain with sheepfolds, can be seen on the hillside to the right of centre. The viewpoint is the extraordinary Bryn Cader Faner cairn.

Dramatic setting for the hut circle at SH64423549. On a better day the views would be of the mountains east of Blaenau Ffestiniog and on towards Moel Siabod.

Well-preserved hut circle at SH64423549.

The northern end of the settlement, looking NNE. Tumbled walls can be seen in the foreground.

Looking down on the ring cairn in its stream-side setting. The Dwyryd estuary, Porthmadoc and Portmeirion lie far below.

The ring cairn.

The ring cairn with Y Gyrn behind.

Looking across the centre of the kerb cairn to Y Gyrn itself.

Cist side slab.

The partially collapsed cist in the centre of the kerb cairn.

The kerb cairn in its setting near the head of a rocky valley, another upland Bronze Age site in close proximity to a watercourse.

The superb kerb cairn.

Yr Eifl from Dinas Dinlle, at the end of a walk that began under its crags.

The scooped top of the round barrow/signal station/whatever inside the fort.

Parts of the rampart have been topped with wooden slats in an attempt to reduce erosion.

The curve of the eastern rampart. The skyline is filled with the mountains of northwest Wales, Yr Wyddfa and Mynydd Mawr on the left and the Nantlle ridge across the centre.

The view over the northern ramparts. The dark line on the horizon is Ynys Mon, steadily drawing closer on the coast path now.

Looking southwest towards Yr Eifl and the Llyn.

Looking southwest to the hills of Llyn: Bwlch Mawr, Gyrn Goch, Gyrn Ddu and Yr Eifl.

Looking east to a backdrop of Mynydd Mawr (left) and Craig Cwm-silyn on the Nantlle ridge (right).

Y Foel is the green, rounded hill, right of centre. To the left are three cairn-topped mountains of the Nantlle ridge (Craig Cwm-silyn, Garnedd Goch and Mynydd Graig Goch).

There is a ruined Bronze Age cairn on the prominent hill, far left, now built into the field wall.

Looking southwest towards Gyrn Goch and Yr Eifl.

A perfect megalithic mushroom.

Profusely cupmarked.

Deeply carved cupmarks on the capstone.

Caernarfon Bay behind, the low coastline of Ynys Mon just visible far right.

With Gyrn Goch and Gyrn Ddu behind.

Ffynnon Beuno (see Folklore posts).

The northwestern peak, Garn For, drops straight down to the sea. The cairn is on top of the summit, balanced precariously above the ongoing quarrying.