Summer Solstice

             

Bryn-Y-Wrach Round Barrow/ Cairn (SS9218086729) Garw Valley

It's the first week of June it's hot really hot . I have cycled up and over the Bwlch to visit a Round Cairn on Llangeinor Common in an area known as Bryn Y Wrach approximately 15 miles from my house . The cairn is very easy to find a short off road walk along a gravel road to the northern edge of the common . At the site the coast lines around Ogmore and across the other side of Bristol Channel come into view it's a beautiful vista . Turning southwest looking along the length of the Garw valley to Mynydd Llangeinwyr above the green hills and brown troughs the uplands landscape unfurls beneath the blazing sun ... yowza!!! .

The cairn / mound is in good condition measuring 13m in diameter and almost a metre in height most of it is covered in bracken and nettles I'm wearing cycling shorts boy do I suffer . I may return later in the year for closer inspection . The mound was thought likely to be Bronze Age in origin for decades . It took an archeological dig in 2011 before the site could be verified as a 3000 year old Bronze Age burial chamber .

Round Cairn

Cairn plan .

Bronze Age Urn

Burial Cyst 

 Rhos Gwawr 

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Round Barrow

 Rhos Gwawr
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