Winter Solstice 2020

 

Mynydd  yr Eglwys 

Mushrooms Toadstools Fungi (2)

 

Cwm Cadlan Ring Cairn

Winter Blues ..

Sunny post from 2018 .

Let the light in .

Hendre'r Mynydd Iron Age Settlement

 'Hendre'r Mynydd' Iron Age Settlement ( SN923018)

 Rhigos mountain  , Blaenrhondda - Treherbert side .

 I cycled  from the Bwlch mountain pass along the forestry road that goes through Pen y Cymoedd wind farm one sunny spring morning April 2018 . Alternativity you can drive to the top of the Rhigos . The site is accessible from the car park/ picnic area across the road . 

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 ?