Western summit cairn from the middle of the trio, the latter sadly crowned by a ‘muppet shelter’.
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Another angle showing apparent intact profile of eastern cairn.
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Eastern cairn... lower profile, but paradoxically in seemingly better shape.
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What would appear to be the remnants of a wrecked cist within the western cairn....
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The central monument from the western cairn........ I’d suggest the ‘red paint marker’ is probably used as a waymarker by local orienteers obviously not too good with map in hand. I’ve seen similar over the years upon the Black Mountains further east.
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Looking from the (apparently undisturbed) eastern cairn. The OS trig pillar sits before the central cairn, thankfully not adding to the destruction of the ‘shelter’. The western monument can be seen taking cunning advantage of the topography top left.
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The Cilsanws summit cairns and Cefn Cil-sanws ring cairn can just be discerned top right.
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Looking across the cemetery of pretty large cairns from the approx north – I think.
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Isn’t it lovely when an overcast mountain sky decides to let the traveller have his reward? Quite substantial monuments, too...
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Viewed across one of the wondrous ‘shake holes’ which can be found in the South Walian uplands.
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The unusual sub-divided interior... at first I wondered if this site might in fact be a dwelling..... but the exact positioning viewed from the summit crags convinces me this was placed for symbolic effect, not practicality.
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More substantial monuments reside upon Coedcae’r Gwarthog in the distance...
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The wondrous Tre’r Ceiri viewed from the great cairn crowning Mynydd Carnguwch.
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Yr Eifl..... with Tre’r Ceiri to the right.... viewed from the cairn.
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Highlighting the cairn erectors’ canny use of the natural rocky topography to achieve the most impressive cairn with optimum expended energy... or something like that.
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The Lleyn Peninsular, with Carn Fadryn (centre-leftish background). Garn Boduan is far right of image, site of a quite magnificent hill fort.
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Highlighting the sheer bulk of this magnificent upland cairn.
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Another view of the recumbent stone setting....
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