Hard to find... and harder to photograph, this was my favourite site of the day.
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Once posited as a medieval well... “The suggestion that this may be a well-chamber is clearly erroneous, although the cist may have been added to later to form a small shelter. (CPAT 2003)”
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Not having researched beforehand, this one proved a very pleasant surprise.
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Arguably, winter is the optimal time to visit Pen-yr-Heol Las...
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Looking towards Mynydd Llangorse ... quite a few cairns that-a-way, too.
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An unexpectedly substantial monument, with a smaller example just north.
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The foreground plaque, incidentally, commemorates (appropriately enough) a Mr Robert Moor who died in 2021. Now, just as I was pondering who this chap was – and why here? – who should turn up en-masse... but his family. Me: Any idea who this man was? Young girl: Yes. My grandad! Quite bizarre. It appears the former gentleman was a local and said family had no idea they had placed his ashes at the burial site of another village ‘elder’... albeit one who lived millennia before. Continuity, right? “Great Love Lives On”, to quote from the dedication. Indeed, so it does.
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Highlighting how one should ALWAYS look beyond the obvious modern marker cairn....
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Not the finest of weather/light... but hey, a pretty good cairn
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As bonus sites go, this is surely up there with the best?
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If this isn’t a long cairn I’ll eat my hat.
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Chamber ‘B’. The capstone is immediately to the right of the orthostats.
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Chamber ‘A’ with Gilman Camp in profile beyond.
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Chamber ‘B’. The dislodged capstone can be seen to the left.
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Chanber ‘A’: more-or-less intact, with dislodged capstone
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Chamber ‘A’. Gilman Camp can be seen rising beyond...
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Traces of ‘archaeological matting’ out of shot extreme bottom left indicate the former final resting place of the ‘Red Laddie’ some 33/34k years ago now [natural light, 13 second exposure]
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From within. I swear one could sit here all day. But best not... unless one can abseil. Or happen to be Aquaman.
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From the cave entrance [natural light, approx 8 seconds exposure]
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Looking from the path traversing Foxhole Slade... the cave is within the cliff face (approx centre) accessed to the left.
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Looking down Foxhole Slade. The fort is top right, the tide well and truly ‘in’.
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The wondrous cave is out of sight below.... but not out of mind.
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With the wind a’blowing some knots I don’t mind admitting a fair degree of vertigo. One assumes the former inhabitants were not prone to sleepwalking?
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Incidentally, the evocative Craig-y-Dullfan might just be made out centre left... or not. My eyes are no longer that good.
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My mama told me, there’d be days like this. Not very often on Pumlumon, mind. Hopefully, TMA will be seeing a lot more in the future.
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Looking approx southwest near the summit of Tal-y-Fan towards the northern Carneddau. The great cairns of Carnedd Y Ddelw (right) and Carnedd Pen y Borth Goch (left) allow Llwytmor and Foel-fras to shine... well, glow as these rise above.
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Towards ‘the rest’ of Y Carneddau from a rather hostile Tal-y-Fan. Just the way it should be.
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Gazing towards Conwy Bay from Tal-y-Fan. There’s a lot going on down there, enough to interest any period-head, I’d have thought? For the Antiquarian, the hillforts Dinas Allt-wen and Castell Caer Seion can be seen centre and right, The Great Orme bringing up the rear, so to speak. Foel Lus is to the left.
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Towards the site of the ‘axe factory’... and destroyed hill fort... from Tal-y-Fan
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