Winter Solstice 2020

 

Mynydd  yr Eglwys 

Mushrooms Toadstools Fungi (2)

 

Cwm Cadlan Ring Cairn

Winter Blues ..

Sunny post from 2018 .

Let the light in .

Hendre'r Mynydd Iron Age Settlement

 'Hendre'r Mynydd' Iron Age Settlement ( SN923018)

 Rhigos mountain  , Blaenrhondda - Treherbert side .

 I cycled  from the Bwlch mountain pass along the forestry road that goes through Pen y Cymoedd wind farm one sunny spring morning April 2018 . Alternativity you can drive to the top of the Rhigos . The site is accessible from the car park/ picnic area across the road . 

Mynydd Illtud Standing Stone

Mynydd Illtud Standing Stone (ref SN97602651)

 Last post from the the day spent at Mynydd Illtyd in Brecon Beacons National Park . I know the area quite well there's no chance of us travelling down the wrong road  . Half an hour after leaving the house we park opposite  Castle Camlais  which has been reduced to a large earth mound .The temperature had dropped to 4 degrees it doesn't feel like it . It's dry don't mind the cold . Mynydd Illtud Standing stone is a 2km's hike south east along Sarn Helen to Mynydd Illtyd Common .

Stone is positioned on a grassy path twenty metres from edge of the road . . Time period of when the stone was put it the ground is unknown .Roman boundary marker maybe ? Sarn Helen runs across Mynydd Illtud to the Roman fort of y Gaer .

Sarn Helen . Roman supply route .

Cwm Camlais Castle

Castle Cwm Camlais (ref SN 95584 26069 ) 

Ruined Castle near Defynnog built by Humphrey de Bohun Earl of Hereford in the 13th Century . The castle consisted of a motte which supported a single round tower measuring twelve metres in diameter approx . This was surrounded by a rocky bank .Building was destroyed in 1265 . Blaen Camlais standing stones are In the field below the castle .

Blaen Camlais Standing Stones

Blaen Camlais Standing Stones (ref SN9560525889)

Three large standing stones set in a field very close to Castle Cwm Camlais  . One of the stones has collapsed and split down the middle . The beacons dominate the skyline to the west easy to pick out the sacred twin peaks of Pen y Fan and Corn Du south west from here .

  Celestial Alignment ?

Blaen Camlais Standing Stones 2

Friday the thirteenth ...

  turned out to be a great day !

on the road again !

mynydd Illtud

 corn du & pen y fan 

castle cwm calais

blaen camlais  stones

Rhos Gwawr Cairnfield Revisited part 1

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Fog on the hill . .   

Ring cairn grid ref SN 9957 0037

Rhos Gwawr Cairns Revisited part 2

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Round Barrow . Largest cairn in field . 100 metres from road gate  .  (grid ref ) SN 994007   

SN 9920 0090  

SN 9947 0079

I counted forty cairns on this site in three separate areas .

Rhos Gwawr Cairnfield Revisited part 3

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My last visit here was a few years ago on a lovely summer's day a few mounds were covered in thick vegetation . I went back to Rhos Gwawr last week for a more thorough look of the site .Spring in the air . Sun threatened to break through a layer of fog .

ring cairn

Recumbent Stone ?

Round Barrow Cyst 

Cwm Henwen Standing Stone

 

A few weeks ago I spent the afternoon at  Usk Reservoir. Turned out to be the last day pre current lockdown . Fuck knows when I will be able to travel non essentially past the county line again. . After my visit to  Gwern - Wyddog  I made my way back down to the road walking north east . Cwm Henwen (SN82962929) about a mile away  . The stone is 1.5 metres high not unlike a boundary marker from a distance .On closer inspection I think it more likely to be the rump of a larger stone . The sacred twin peaks of Nant Du and Pen y Fan are in clear view looking north east . 

Cwm Henwen

 

Big hills and country lanes

 

  Pentre  - Penderyn - Heol Senni ...

Out on the road bike last week 100 kms ride was a very enjoyable day out .

... - Crai - Upper Tawe Valley - Pen y Cae - Glynneath - Treherbert

Hendre' Mynydd Iron Age Settlement 

 Llyn Fawr Reservoir 

Rhigos Mountain Fog

Carn yr Arian

Maen Llia

Fan Bwlch Chwyth

Glasfynydd Forest 

Alpacas

Bwlch Cerrig Duon 

Bwlch Cerrig Duon

Waen Leuci Standing Stone 

Maen Leuci 

Maen Mawr