Cerrig Bwlch y fedw

Nearest town:
Bala (14km WSW)
OS reference:
SJ05873615
OS sheet:
125
Latitude:
52° 54' 50.83 N
Longitude:
3° 24' 0.04 W
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Image of Cerrig Bwlch y fedw (Stone Circle) by thesweetcheat

Five visible stones emerge, after flattening the grasses a bit.

Image credit: A. Brookes (13.9.2023)
thesweetcheat
thesweetcheat Dec 9, 2024
Image of Cerrig Bwlch y fedw (Stone Circle) by thesweetcheat

Looking southwest. The outcrop proved to be a good landmark to orientate from when looking for the stones.

Image credit: A. Brookes (13.9.2023)
thesweetcheat
thesweetcheat Dec 9, 2024
Image of Cerrig Bwlch y fedw (Stone Circle) by thesweetcheat

Temperature inversion fills the Dee valley beyond. The stones struggle to be seen above the reedy grass.

Image credit: A. Brookes (13.9.2023)
thesweetcheat
thesweetcheat Dec 9, 2024
Image of Cerrig Bwlch y fedw (Stone Circle) by GLADMAN

There’s a ‘circle in there somewhere... but in my opinion all the better for its camouflage...

Image credit: Robert Gladstone
GLADMAN
GLADMAN Nov 22, 2015
Image of Cerrig Bwlch y fedw (Stone Circle) by GLADMAN

Peeling back the layers of time. Or something like that. It hasn’t come out too well, but more stone work was visible beneath the turf......

Image credit: Robert Gladstone
GLADMAN
GLADMAN Oct 29, 2012
Image of Cerrig Bwlch y fedw (Stone Circle) by GLADMAN

Nice bit of grass, that. Apparently there’s a ‘circle in there, too.

Image credit: Robert Gladstone
GLADMAN
GLADMAN Oct 29, 2012
Image of Cerrig Bwlch y fedw (Stone Circle) by postman

Looking north east to the northern reaches of the Berwyn mountains.

Image credit: Chris Bickerton
postman
postman Apr 13, 2011
Image of Cerrig Bwlch y fedw (Stone Circle) by postman

looking northwest, Moel ty uchaf just out of view.
Coincidence ?

Image credit: Chris Bickerton
postman
postman Apr 13, 2011
Image of Cerrig Bwlch y fedw (Stone Circle) by postman

looking across the the circle to unnamed hilltop with rocky outcrops below.

Image credit: Chris Bickerton
postman
postman Apr 13, 2011
Image of Cerrig Bwlch y fedw (Stone Circle) by postman

Showing the man made drainage gully that runs through the circle.

Image credit: Chris Bickerton
postman
postman Apr 13, 2011
Image of Cerrig Bwlch y fedw (Stone Circle) by postman

Moel Pearce in the background, the standing stone is half way down on the left, but it can’t be made out.

Image credit: Chris Bickerton
postman
postman Apr 13, 2011

Articles

Cerrig Bwlch y fedw

postman
postman Apr 13, 2011

This stone circle is less than a mile from the well known Moel ty uchaf, it’s not marked on any maps, nor is it in any of Burls books, but it is on the now god like Coflein, it is to me an amazing thing, that anyone with time and persistance
can find something that isnt generally known, any bump any wrinkle in the landscape can be identified through the magic of Coflein. Really can’t enthuse about it enough.

From Moel ty Uchaf turn and look up at the mountains, the path you partly used to get here carries on up the hill past a deforested conifer plantation, and then dissapears over the brow of the hill, if you dont have a personal transporter, youll have to walk there, I had a bike.
When the footpath goes through a gate with a stream running through it, either follow the path up the hill to Moel Pearce standing stone which is now visible as a white almost shining beacon on the hillside. Or turn right into the long boggy grass, with a fence on your right follow it up the gentle hill untill you see the stones on your left, four out of five stones still stand higher than the grass, but only just.

Coflein suggests a stone circle of six metres north to south, containing maybe eight stones, none more than a metre tall, only five stones now remain, one small stone has fallen, but its so tiny as to appear as a  modern intrusion. The other four are, I thought quite impressive, after a bit of gardening, you know just pulling out all the old dead grass, making the stones more visible for photography and any subsequent visitors (smiles to him self wryly), and trying to find any other fallen stones, the man made drainage channel that hideiously bisects the circle
is said to have fallen stones in it but the channel has severely shrunk since cofleins last visit so the stones may now be under the squelchy ground, this place really should be looked after, if it was all neat and easier to see it might lose something, but would gain the same visiting rights as Tyfos and Moel ty uchaf.
The next time your at the latter do make the effort I beleive it is worth it

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