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

Gwern-Wyddog (Grid RefSN83322835)

 

Having been spending most of my free time on the road bike all other activity was put on the back burner for a while . Earlier this week my other half and I drove to Usk Reservoir .I wanted to see two standing stones , been meaning to visit there for what seems like ages . This part of the Brecon national park is full of interesting ancient monuments . Being my first time over there I didn't venture too far from the muddy banks . Gwern-Wyddog is less than a mile from the rear of the car park which was handy . Short walk up a steep bank . Took a few photos at the top . The area around the reservoir is  spectacular. Dramatic views in every direction the Black Mountain range is the most striking . The stone is very easy to locate just go over a gate into the next field straight across you can't really miss the seven foot high monolith .

               

Gwern-wyddog

 

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 .