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