Winter Solstice 2022

 

                                                                  

Craig-y-Bwlch Bronze Age Cairn SN9419003540

 The weather being what it is this time of the year , chances of going somewhere on a spcefic day / date are kinda slim . Which is why  I went a day early on this years Soltice jaunt , after checking the weather app the day before . The sun was out when I started the hike at 9.30 AM . Having  to endure a couple of heavy showers along the way on what turned out to be a 14 K trek is par for the course  The real soaking came crossing moorland . The round cairn is  situated on top af an escarpment facing the sacred twin peaks of  Corn Du/Pen y Fan  on Mnydd Bwlfa  . Craig -y- Bylch is 1mtre high and a diamater of 12 metres . 

The Weather

 

Stunning view 

Black Mountains away in the distance ..

Return to St Cynog's part 1 The Yew Tree

 

Five thousand year old Yew tree in the graveyard of St Cynog's , Defynnog .

Return to St Cynog's part 2

 

Roman burial marker stone at St Cynog's Church Defynnog , in church porch  . A Latin inscription reads  'RUGNIATIO LIVENDONIO' - 'Rugniatis, son of Vendonius'. 

Ogham script is etched into the stone .

Celtic Cross at the top was dates from the Middle ages .

The Cove , Stanton Drew

 

The Cove

( ST597631) 

 The Cove was constructed during the Iron Age . May have been a chambered tomb . Aligns with Stanton Drew stone circle on other side of wall .

Fallen backstone .

Tyle Bychan (SN93872595) 13/10 /22

 

          One a half metre high Bronze Age Standing Stone near the town of Defynnog . Stone is a few metres in from the road . 

Ysgubor-Wen Cairn 1/8/22 (SN9227013930 )

 

This Cairn is on the opposite side of the field of Gelli Nedd Iron Age Hill Fort  . A hawthorn tree  growing  on the back edge of the grass mound in amongst  the scattered stones  .  

Cwm Ian aka Bwlch y Clawdd Cairn ( SS948948 ) 17/6 /22

 

Round Cairn set on a hill a kilomoter or so east of the Ironage Fort on Mynydd Maendy . All that remains of the cairn is a small pile of stones . The surrounding views take in the Bylch Mountain, the vast expanse of Craig Mawr - West . Mynydd Ty'n-Tyle is across the valley - South West . Seeing the twin peaks of Corn Du and Pen y Fan are away in the distance - North East more than make up for the state of this ancient monument .