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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The fabulous setting of the monument from the north-west. The Black Mountains fill the skyline.
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Northern cairn, looking towards Garn Wen.
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The larger, yet more grassily dishevelled cairn some distance to the north. Garn Wen can be seen far left.
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The cairn possesses a sweeping view across Dyffryn Dyfi... not as fine as that from Foel Goch, perhaps, but.....
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No idiot shelter here... this isn’t exactly ‘walking country’, such is the ‘hard going’ nature of the terrain. No complaints from The Citizen Cairn there. Y Tarenau rise beyond Dyffryn Dyfi.
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To be fair, I can understand in this instance why the well-built marker cairn – fashioned from the lower grassy footprint – detracts attention from the prehistoric pedigree of the monument. Nonetheless, I am in no doubt.
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The cairn visible upon Pen Carreg Gopa was a siren call... but a very difficult ask owing to the terrain.
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Looking towards the similarly cairn-topped Cerrig Blaencletwr-Fawr and Foel Goch..
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A pretty fabulous location for a little Bronze Age cairn cemetery... Esgair Elan lies beyond
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Northern defences from within the enclosure....
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Pretty large banks remain for such an obscure site....
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What I took to be defences downhill to the south....
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The powerful defences to the north... at first, I assumed this was a promontory fort.
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An intriguing site well worth combining with Banc Paderau to the west. Mynydd Epynt rises beyond.
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The monument faces off to the wondrous Garn Wen across the cwm.
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Coflein hedges its bets as to what this monument actually represents... unlike CADW’s scheduling, which is in no doubt this is a ring cairn. Far too slight to be defensive and far too exposed for animal husbandry, one has to ask what else it could possibly be?
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Viewed from Cribyn Bedw to the west... the monument is exquisitely placed, top right
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My spider senses were a’tingling, so they were.
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