<< Our Photo Pages >> Picws Du - Cairn in Wales in Carmarthenshire (Sir Caerfyrddin)
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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Picws DuCountry: Wales County: Carmarthenshire (Sir Caerfyrddin) Type: Cairn
Nearest Town: Llandovery Nearest Village: Llanddeusant
Map Ref: SN81172185
Latitude: 51.882509N Longitude: 3.727842W
Condition:
| 5 | Perfect |
| 4 | Almost Perfect |
| 3 | Reasonable but with some damage |
| 2 | Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site |
| 1 | Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks |
| 0 | No data. |
| -1 | Completely destroyed |
| 5 | Superb |
| 4 | Good |
| 3 | Ordinary |
| 2 | Not Good |
| 1 | Awful |
| 0 | No data. |
| 5 | Can be driven to, probably with disabled access |
| 4 | Short walk on a footpath |
| 3 | Requiring a bit more of a walk |
| 2 | A long walk |
| 1 | In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find |
| 0 | No data. |
| 5 | co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates |
| 4 | co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map |
| 3 | co-ordinates scaled from a bad map |
| 2 | co-ordinates of the nearest village |
| 1 | co-ordinates of the nearest town |
| 0 | no data |
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TheCaptain visited on 20th Jul 2017 - their rating: Cond: 2 Amb: 5 Access: 2 From Fan Brycheiniog we set off back northwards and then headed off in a westerly direction across the open boggy moorland, which would not have been a good idea in weather any worse, but it was now quite bright and I was able to pick a reasonable route between the bogs and peat hags! Once onto the path along the westerly edge of Fan Foel, it was steeply down and then slowly up the steep slope to the top of Picws Du at 749m, which is once again topped by an ancient cairn. The remains of this one are in a better, more natural condition than the others up here, no doubt helped by a lesser number of visitors, as the path here is much less worn and eroded. The remains are probably still abut a metre in height, and topped by a modern walkers cairn. Around the outside it was possible to make out a nice circle of kerbstones. From here it is possible to see down to Llyn y Fan Fach in the hollow below, the glacial lake which is the home to the Lady of the Lake legend. With the winds swirling around the mountains, it does indeed make all sorts of patterns on the surface of the lake, as if it is bubbling and boiling away heralding an appearance. It is really fabulous up here, the views extending southwards to the Bristol Channel and beyond, while northwards over the cliff edge up to the Cambrian Mountains. There are many heavy storms moving around across the landscape but thankfully we are missed by the worst of them for the rest of the day. It is of interest to see them tracking over in a north-easterly direction, the shadows of the clouds making constantly moving patterns on the moorland below. There are many ravens flying around, usually in pairs, making their deep cawing calls to each other, which can be heard from miles away.
lboutside visited - their rating: Cond: 2 Amb: 4 Access: 2
sem cerrig PAB have visited here
Average ratings for this site from all visit loggers: Condition: 2 Ambience: 4.5 Access: 2
The Royal Commission for Ancient & Historic Monuments in Wales (RCAHMW) refers to the cairn arrowed in this picture as a Bronze Age Barrow, located at SN8117021855 - "A cairn crowns the summit of one of the precipitous craggy buttresses of the northern escarpment of Mynydd Du." (Mynydd Du being Black Mountain in Welsh).
For further details, follow the link to the RCAHMW page for this site. This picture was taken from SN80362281 - the low Access score due to the fact that the round trip was just under 12k...but certainly worth it! The actual cairn stands at 749m - fairly easy to locate on OS, takes a bit longer on foot.
As Andy B has reported for other cairns along the ridge, it is now difficult to see the ancient for the relatively modern, and I would have hesitated in posting this had not the RCAHMW reference been so precise.
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