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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Looking approx SE from the central cairn across the (badly damaged) southern cairn to Horridge Common. There are another round cairn and two ‘tumuli’ near the far trees. Whether the small ‘cairn’ in the foreground is a separate monument or the residue from robbing of the main I wasn’t immediately sure – I reckon the latter on balance.
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From some angles – such as this – the southern cairn (foreground) looks pretty good. But don’t be deceived... it’s been severely treated, as have those upon Horridge Common (the western is almost destroyed). The excellent central cairn – not to mention the tor cairn itself – more than compensate, however.
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The central cairn is a substantial monument... sun, too.
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Upon the summit tor, highlighting the ‘tor cairn’ fabric still in situ. Haytor Rocks rises beyond.
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The tor cairn... looking approx NW towards Top Tor.
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A masterpiece of natural sculpture stands before the summit tor cairn...
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Looking across the excellent central cairn to the enigmatic tor cairn from the badly robbed southern..
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