GLADMAN
Not marked upon OS mapping.... but Cwmdeuddwr just keeps on giving.
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At some 1,680ft (or so) this may not be among the highest Bronze Age cairns in Wales... however, take it from me: a Citizen Cairn is unlikely to find anywhere with a more relaxing, ‘away-from-it-all’ vibe. Exquisite.
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Sited below and to the southwest of Mynydd Llangyndeyrn summit, this handsome monolith presents a textbook example of why, in my opinion, fallen stones should be re-erected if the original hole can be discovered.
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My approach took me across (?) a ring cairn subsumed within chest-high bracken, reinforced with industrial-strength bramble concealed within.
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It really is a rather wondrous cist...
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The site (centre left) viewed from the approx west. There is (apparently) a ring cairn subsumed within all that vegetation to the immediate right (south) at SN48981344. Clearly, summer is not the season to visit these ‘lower’ monuments upon Mynydd Llangyndeyrn: the intervening distance shown here took me a full 20 minutes to hack my way through.
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Whether the remnants of a cist still remain within the ring cairn is a moot point during summer. SN4830013250
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Looking across the platform cairn... the ‘She-wolf’s lair’ and Bwrdd Arthur lay below the outcrop seen right background (east)
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The ‘mutilated ring cairn’ at SN4830013250, a little below the summit to approx south-east.
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Looking east across the chambers
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Gwal-y-Filiast...
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Looking down upon the chambers from the rocky outcrop to the immediate south. Bwrdd Arthur is to the left.
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The collapsed megaliths of Gwal-y-Filiast (let’s go with She-Wolf’s Lair) to the immediate east.... perhaps originally part of the same monument?
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Looking towards the summit of Mynydd Llangyndeyrn across Bwrdd Arthur..
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Bwrdd Arthur... this was more than enough to justify the ludicrously – as it turned out – delayed visit... but there is so much more here. Amazing.
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The summit ‘platform cairn’ bearing the OS trig station...
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SN4820013250 – Highlighting elements of the kerb
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The central stone is apparently a component of the original cist erected by some muppet in the relatively recent past.
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The kerbed cairn (SN4820013250) to the approx south-west of the summit platform cairn. I must admit I was completely unprepared for the quality of this...
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The epitome of prehistoric Cwmdeuddwr, perhaps?
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Some sites just ‘slip through the net’.... and are all the better for it.
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The monument is very well preserved, to be fair.
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Looking towards the ‘jaws’ of Cwm Ystwyth... Craig y Lluest (background, right) possesses a diminutive cairn cemetery of its own.
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It took 13 years to return here... but worth the wait.
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Sunburst upon southern slopes of the tor cairn... the ‘free standing’ cairns can be seen beyond.
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The tor cairn is clear in this image looking across to Haytor Rocks.
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