The wondrous Tre’r Ceiri viewed from the southern slopes of Gyrn Ddu to approx northeast. The hillfort crowns the left-hand summit of the triumvirate. The massive cairn upon Mynydd Carnguwch is far background left
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I’d been hanging out for a couple of hours before the blindingly obvious point finally dawned upon me: the cist is aligned upon the summit cairn(s) of Rhinog Fawr. Exquisite.
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Looking towards Rhinog Fawr, actually crowned by at least one Bronze Age cairn of its own....
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Moel Goedog and all sorts of other ‘stoney stuff’ is that-a-way
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I have to say I was blown away by this exquisite monument. Clip rises beyond... not had the pleasure to date.
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The very well-preserved cist...
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Cairn circle or kerbed cairn? Take away the cairn and surely this would be a small stone circle?
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Just goes to show one never truly knows what’s lying in obscurity upon the Welsh uplands.
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The fabulous carn circle/kerbed cairn lies to the right of the animal feeder thingy, bottom left...
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The dodgy light and strong wind played havoc with the photography... the ubiquitous upland grass becoming a milky wash of movement. But there you are.
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Foel Offrwm and Foel Faner rise across the cairn..
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Coflein cites a rectangular cist within the cairn... which looks a pretty good shout, to be fair.
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The monument is very well-sited... approaching from the south.
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What I took to be pretty obvious remnants of a former kerb.
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Arenig Fawr and Moel Llyfnant (lovely little mountain, that) harbour another incoming thunderstorm.
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Arenig Fawr is the distant peak, crowned – of course – by its own monument.
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This is pretty obscure, to be fair. So much so, I walked right past, only sussing it from above.
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Another pretty fine cairn not marked upon OS mapping... Looking towards Carnedd Iago.
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Highlighting what – surely? – must be the former capstone... Foel Offrwm can be seen beyond.
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Bit fiddly to find, this one – in the end I approached from Pandy Gader to the east playing close attention to the 1:25k map. [Edit – note the comment].
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Being hammered by consecutive storm fronts does have its compensations.
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Northern flank showing the best-preserved section of defences
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A well-preserved section of wall to the north...
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Traces of the original defences upon the southern flank
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It was always going to take a very poor weather day to finally entice me here... owing to the abundance of ‘industrial heritage’ that has desecrated the immediate environs of Llanberis... however, to be fair, it was worth the effort, particularly looking south-east towards the Snowdon massif itself.
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The spectacular east face of Diffwys towering above Cwm Mynach highlights how futile are humankind’s attempts to claim the high places. The summit OS trig pillar can just be seen top right.
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According to GAT the funerary cairn – or what remains of it – is the ‘hump’ beneath the wall to the left of the OS trig pillar. Y Llethr, 2,480ft sentinel of Y Rhinogydd, lies beyond. The monument would of course be obvious were it not for the surmounting wall.
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The summit of Diffwys as it was upon 27/10/2017...
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The 2,460ft summit of Diffwys, the cairn straddled by the trademark Rhinog drystone wall to the right of the OS trig point.
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