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<< Our Photo Pages >> Mynydd Bach - Round Cairn in Wales in Anglesey

Submitted by guile on Friday, 07 May 2010  Page Views: 5585

Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Mynydd Bach
Country: Wales
NOTE: This site is 2.492 km away from the location you searched for.
County: Anglesey Type: Round Cairn
 Nearest Village: Rhosneigr
Map Ref: SH32847086
Latitude: 53.208446N  Longitude: 4.504501W
Condition:
5Perfect
4Almost Perfect
3Reasonable but with some damage
2Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
0No data.
-1Completely destroyed
 2 Ambience:
5Superb
4Good
3Ordinary
2Not Good
1Awful
0No data.
 4 Access:
5Can be driven to, probably with disabled access
4Short walk on a footpath
3Requiring a bit more of a walk
2A long walk
1In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find
0No data.
 4 Accuracy:
5co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates
4co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map
3co-ordinates scaled from a bad map
2co-ordinates of the nearest village
1co-ordinates of the nearest town
0no data
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Mynydd Bach
Mynydd Bach submitted by guile : Small and perfectly formed, this boulder has much to please the eye in Mynydd Bach ring cairn. (Vote or comment on this photo)
Round Cairn in Anglesey (Sir Ynys Mon). A denuded and otherwise degraded cairn, probably Bronze Age. The cairn survives as a low mound or platform, roughly 8.0m in diameter and 0.5m high. Excavations in 1952-3 recorded details of a central cist or grave, 1.5m by 0.9m, defined by orthostatic boulders. This had been almost entirely robbed, however, the absence of burnt bone fragments and the presence of a single suggestive pottery fragment seems to suggest an origin in the Beaker period, in the earlier Bronze Age.

Sources: RCAHM Anglesey Inventory (1937), 98
Powell & Daniel 'Barclodiad y Gawres' (1956), 71-2
Lynch 'Prehistoric Anglesey' (1970), 103

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Anglesey seems prone to exaggeration when it comes to identifying geographical features, for example the remains of this circular cairn is found on top of Mynydd Bach, which means Little Mountain in English. It is to be found a short walk from Mynydd Mawr, which means Big Mountain. Mynydd Mawr is far more famous than this quiet and under stated cairn, as it has Barclodiad y Gawres on its summit.

Both of these features are of course little more than hills.

Overshadowed by its famous neighbour and despite being thickly overgrown with grass obscuring most details, I found the open sky ambience of this site with its 360ยบ views most enjoyable and a complete contrast to Barclodiad y Gawres.

This very peaceful site also has one of my favourite rocks comprising its number, with minute yet perfectly formed quartz crystal prismatic extrusions in its matrix.
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Mynydd Bach
Mynydd Bach submitted by guile : Mynydd Bach ring cairn looking west. (Vote or comment on this photo)

Mynydd Bach Cairn 2
Mynydd Bach Cairn 2 submitted by TheCaptain : Found the remains of this cairn fairly easily, making a circular patch of green grass amongst the gorse and other growth. It is not a great monument being very flattened and destroyed, and also the whole area is absolutely covered with rubbish of all sorts. (Vote or comment on this photo)

Mynydd Bach Cairn 2
Mynydd Bach Cairn 2 submitted by TheCaptain (Vote or comment on this photo)

Mynydd Bach
Mynydd Bach submitted by TheCaptain : Seen looking north from its famous neighbour (Vote or comment on this photo)

Mynydd Bach
Mynydd Bach submitted by TheCaptain : In the wet grass surrounding the cairn were lots of big black and brown caterpillars, Fox Moth I believe.

Mynydd Bach
Mynydd Bach submitted by TheCaptain : Seen looking south towards its more famous neighbour

Mynydd Bach
Mynydd Bach submitted by TheCaptain : Seen looking inland eastwards

Mynydd Bach
Mynydd Bach submitted by TheCaptain : Seen looking north along the coastline

Mynydd Bach
Mynydd Bach submitted by guile : Mynydd Bach ring cairn, looking towards Barclodiad y Gawres.

Mynydd Bach
Mynydd Bach submitted by guile : Mynydd Bach ring cairn viewed from the footpath

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Re: Mynydd Bach by TheCaptain on Tuesday, 13 June 2017
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Notes from my visit 13 Sept 2016

A bit further round the headland from Barclodiad-y-Gawres is the remains of another cairn, but this time a fairly ruinous thing, not much more than a rounded pile of stones about 10m in diameter with a hollow in the centre, with a few largish stones there, whether original or just clearance I cannot really tell.

In the wet grass surrounding the cairn are lots of big black and brown caterpillars, Fox Moth I believe.
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Re: Mynydd Bach by sem on Tuesday, 13 June 2017
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Coflein OS Grid Ref SH3284170860
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Re: Mynydd Bach by guile on Saturday, 27 November 2010
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Extract from Frances Lynch 'Prehistoric Anglesey' 1970 p103

"The small badly ruined cairn on the headland, Mynydd Bach, just north of Barclodiad y Gawres [NGR SH/328708] may have also covered a burial of the Beaker period, although the evidence is extremely tenuous. The cairn had a diameter of 40 ft. In the centre was a large grave, 5ft by 3ft., formed of seven low uprights, open to the north-west.

This grave had been rifled in the past, and when the site was excavated in 1953 nothing was found except a single sherd which, from its colour and paste, might have come from a Beaker.

This identification is supported by the two facts that no scraps of burnt bone were found, and that the grave was large enough to have contained an inhumation."
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Re: Mynydd Bach by guile on Friday, 07 May 2010
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More references to Mynydd Bach:

The Reverend John Skinner in his famous "Ten Days Tour in Anglesey 1802" which was published as a Supplement to Archaeologia Cambrensis, July 1908 notes:

Monday December 6th 1802

"...Instead of a cromlech at Mynnedd Cnwc we found the vestiges of a large carnedd; many of the flatstones of the cist faen or chamber are still remaining but the small ones have been almost all re-moved to build a wall close at hand. On another fork of the peninsula about a hundred yards dis-tant we observed the traces of another carnedd of much smaller dimensions...


[Which is now regarded as a Bronze Age cairn]

Note: ''Mynydd'' is Welsh for ''Mountain'' and ''Cnwc'' is Goidelic in origin being ''Cnoc'' and means ''Hillock''.
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Re: Mynydd Bach by guile on Friday, 07 May 2010
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Re: Mynydd Bach by guile on Friday, 07 May 2010
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For what its worth I have found a further reference to this cairn in the Archaeologia Cambrensis for 1868, on page 403. I include the pre-amble for context.

The Rev. Hugh Prichard of Dinam describes the ancient tumulus called Barclodiad y Gawres, the remains of which are near Ty Croes Station. He says :''Bar-clodiad y Gawres was once a chambered tumulus of large size, but is now in a great measure destroyed." Its base, according to Mr. Prichard, had probably a circumference of 240 ft. Mr. Pritchard also calls attention to the traces of a smaller tumulus close by.
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