GLADMAN
Looking approx SW across the bwlch to Moel Faban..
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Zoomed at across the cwm from the denuded monument at Tanybryn-Isaf
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The monument is very denuded, yet still pretty obvious up close within the lush meadow...
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Pen-y-Castell can be seen across the cwm...
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Looking approx south across the very denuded monument a few minutes before a downhill stampede of curious cows... Garn Wen resides within the trees, top right.
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And to think we’ve got a myriad myopic muppets jumping up and down regarding what’s occurring on Salisbury Plain....
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Arguably the image showing the clearest form..
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The tree cover lends the site a somewhat surreal vibe..
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From the approx south (I think)... it would appear the yellow marker indicates the route of some orienteering path, or other... not the cairn.
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Looking approx north towards the southern Diffwys... incidentally very, very windy
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Western side of the bisecting wall, looking approx south...
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Needless to say.... this is not somewhere to be caught in hill fog without a compass.
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Looking towards Llyn Efyrnwy... rightly beloved of tourists. No tourists up here, however.
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Dodgy conditions, so poor light – but nevertheless a pretty substantial monument, albeit well camouflaged upon the hillside.
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So, definitely a cairn, then. Remnants of internal structure are also evident. Esgair Nant-y-Moch, featuring a possible further monument, rises beyond
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Anywhere else this was not ideal weather... but for Pumlumon, absolutely fine.
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Looking across what was in fact a substantial monument. The enigmatic Disgwylfa Fawr – the ‘Watching Place’ – rises to the approx Northeast.
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Looking across the south-eastern stones towards the southern of Y Rhinogydd’s two Diffwys... this example bearing its own Bronze Age monument (albeit an obscure one)
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Note two ‘circle stones in the foreground – and possibly related stones right?
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Bit distracted after an interesting chat with the farmer arriving on site, meaning this is not the exact angle I wanted to show... however, the ‘entrance portal’ to the Cerrig Arthur ring is (in my opinion beyond any reasonable doubt) aligned upon the great Twll yr Ogof cairn (Craig y Llyn) almost 5 miles to the south-east.
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Fading light and very, very windy. What, no rain?
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The trio of stones upon the southeastern arc... for what it’s worth, second time around I took this arrangement to represent an entrance portal to what was clearly a ring. As Mr Lydon once said ‘I could be wrong; I could be right’.
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Approaching direct from Mynydd Egryn to the approx northwest – Cadair Idris forms the dramatic backdrop across the Mawddach.
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Looking down upon the hill fort from Mynydd Egryn, southern Rhinogydd.
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Always a fan of aerial views of hill forts... here looking from the wondrously undervalued – and very, very windy – Clip, northern Rhinogydd. The equally wondrous Ffridd Fron kerbed cairn lies unseen (centre-ish), The Lleyn Peninsular rising above Tremadog Bay beyond.
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Flattened or not, a wonderful viewpoint.
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The heart of lower Mid Wales sits upon the skyline...
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