Saturday, 16 February 2019

Garn Fach



Garn Fach  SS957917
First field trip of 2019 I planned to get out a few weeks ago  had to cancel due to bad weather . On a lovely bright sunshine day last Thursday I was back up in the Rhondda uplands a few miles north of Clydach Vale  .



                         Bank on the northside may have been outer rim or kerb .



Garn Fach is three miles down the road from here .    



View from Mynydd Ton forestry road gate,  Crugyrafan ( SS920954) green dot and  Carn-Y-Hyrddod (SS91999339) are west of here .


















Garn Fach





Friday, 21 December 2018

Winter Solstice 2018






Carn-Y-Hyrddod (SS91999339)

Put on my boots  headed for the  hills .  Climate  down in the Valley  - overcast- slight breeze - mild  .  
Carn-Y-Hyrddod   is located  at the summit of  Mynydd Llangeinwyr  one km south  from  the Werfa communications masts .  Cairn is 15m diameter  x 1.8 m high  . A smaller cairn has been  built on top of the original  . 

Climate on   Mynydd Llangeinwyr  -  fog - sporadic showers of  freezing rain -   45 miles per hour gusts of  wind  . 
   I love it up here in the hills  ..


Happy Xmas .




Mynydd William Meyrick 




Mynydd Llangeinwyr  . Cairn Position highlighted .



Ogmore Valley 






Sunday, 9 December 2018

Rhondda Fach


22/11/18 part 1 of 3 
  Rhondda Fach  (SN94580230)

   



Hiked  over the top from Treorchy to the source of the River Fach .










Disturbed Bronze age Cairn .   Lluest-wen Reservoir in background .


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The cairn has been opened up leaving a hole in the centre of where the cyst was located . The timber fence which surrounded the site on my last visit three years ago has been taken down . The forestry commision  have wasted no time re- planting trees .




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