Wiral Cairn, Black Mountains

Nearest town:
Crickhowell (12km SW)
OS reference:
SO29852871
OS sheet:
161
Latitude:
51° 57' 7.06 N
Longitude:
3° 1' 15.1 W
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Image of Wiral Cairn, Black Mountains (Round Cairn) by thesweetcheat

Landscape context from the south. The cairn is on the wide ridge, Black Darren cairn is beyond.

Image credit: A. Brookes (24.1.2015)
thesweetcheat
thesweetcheat Feb 22, 2015
Image of Wiral Cairn, Black Mountains (Round Cairn) by thesweetcheat

Looking across the hollowed centre of the cairn towards snow-covered Chwarel y Fan.

Image credit: A. Brookes (24.1.2015)
thesweetcheat
thesweetcheat Feb 22, 2015
Image of Wiral Cairn, Black Mountains (Round Cairn) by thesweetcheat

Some visible stonework protrudes on the eastern side of the mound.

Image credit: A. Brookes (14.7.2012)
thesweetcheat
thesweetcheat Aug 11, 2012
Image of Wiral Cairn, Black Mountains (Round Cairn) by thesweetcheat

Some landscape context, from the southeast (near the 552m trig point north of Rhiw Arw).

Image credit: A. Brookes (23.11.2011)
thesweetcheat
thesweetcheat Nov 27, 2011
Image of Wiral Cairn, Black Mountains (Round Cairn) by thesweetcheat

Looking north. Erosion can be seen on the western side of the cairn.

Image credit: A. Brookes (23.11.2011)
thesweetcheat
thesweetcheat Nov 27, 2011
Image of Wiral Cairn, Black Mountains (Round Cairn) by thesweetcheat

Looking towards the western Black Mountains. Be-cairned Pen Cerrig-calch can be seen on the left skyline, Pen y Gadair Fawr and Waun Fach over to the right.

Image credit: A. Brookes (23.11.2011)
thesweetcheat
thesweetcheat Nov 27, 2011
Image of Wiral Cairn, Black Mountains (Round Cairn) by thesweetcheat

Looking south across the overgrown top of the cairn. The shapely Sugarloaf (Pen y Fal) provides the backdrop.

Image credit: A. Brookes (23.11.2011)
thesweetcheat
thesweetcheat Nov 27, 2011
Image of Wiral Cairn, Black Mountains (Round Cairn) by GLADMAN

The exquisite view the monument planners skillfully managed to avoid!

Image credit: Robert Gladstone
GLADMAN
GLADMAN Apr 30, 2011
Image of Wiral Cairn, Black Mountains (Round Cairn) by GLADMAN

Note the monument’s positionning, denying a quite exquisite view of the Herefordshire plains available 100 yards to the east....

Image credit: Robert Gladstone
GLADMAN
GLADMAN Apr 30, 2011
Image of Wiral Cairn, Black Mountains (Round Cairn) by GLADMAN

The disturbed centre of the cairn. Suffice to say if the Longtown Stone Circle, reputed to be beyond, does exist.... I couldn’t find it in the heather.

Image credit: Robert Gladstone
GLADMAN
GLADMAN Apr 30, 2011
Image of Wiral Cairn, Black Mountains (Round Cairn) by GLADMAN

In surprising good state, bearing in mind the all-too-close proximity of the major Offa’s Dyke track.

Image credit: Robert Gladstone
GLADMAN
GLADMAN Apr 30, 2011
Image of Wiral Cairn, Black Mountains (Round Cairn) by GLADMAN

Looking across the disturbed top of the cairn to the summit of Hatterrall Hill. Note the interesting stone within..... the plains of Herefordshire lie below to the left, the view somewhat obscured by the idiosyncratic Bronze Age placement.

Image credit: Robert Gladstone
GLADMAN
GLADMAN Apr 30, 2011
Image of Wiral Cairn, Black Mountains (Round Cairn) by GLADMAN

The Mam C gives some scale to what remains of this funerary cairn........ little does she know the chocolate’s in my rucksack, not hers (for its safety, you understand).

Image credit: Robert Gladstone
GLADMAN
GLADMAN Apr 30, 2011

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Wiral Cairn, Black Mountains
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GLADMAN
GLADMAN Apr 30, 2011

I make this denuded monument to be fractionally across the English border... although, to be honest, lines upon maps mean nothing up here. The Offa’s Dyke Long Distance Path runs right past the western flank.

Nevertheless, Coflein have the cairn recorded as:

‘A centrally disturbed cairn, 14m by 12m and 1.4m high. (source Os495card; SO22NE13)J.Wiles 03.09.02‘

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