Usk Reservoir

 

Been a while ....

Gwern - Wyddog

Cwm Henwen  Standing Stone 

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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Maen Llia

Went past on my travels .Taking  photos when I do is a given  . Amazing place ...

Cefn y Rhondda

Cefn y Rhondda Cairns (grid ref SS99279629) 

Hiked over to Cefn Y Rhondda to film five cairns . Cefn y Rhondda is the ridge that runs along the top of the mountains overlooking Rhondda Fach - Ferndale / Rhondda Fawr - Ystrad . Three of the Cairns are aligned . The first cairn is 150 metres approx west of the three aligned cairns that are  situated at the bottom of the field . Another  cairn is on other side of wall . This is the most impressive of the five .Returning to the field to view the cairns in alignment  starting with  the middle cairn (2) the best preserved of the three . The next cairn (1) is 20 metres away north . I can make out the 7 metre diameter outline  on the ground and along the shallow bank . The hole where the cyst once was is also visible . The third cairn in the sequence is 60 metres south close to the boundry wall . This is in the worst condition of the three . 

 Check out the wall to see where all the stones disappeared to ..

Llangeinor

• Out on the bike yesterday took some pics on top a hill overlooking the Garw Valley ..  . 
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