Allt Ysgarwen

A group of prehistoric standing stones which may have once formed part of a stone circle Link

The peak to the left is Carn Ingli about 2.5 miles away, with Newport Bay barely visible through the mist.

This OS cut mark can be found on the wall next to the gateway. It marks a point 627.4ft above mean sea level.

This OS cut mark can be found on a large stone west side of the road. It marks a point 579.1ft above mean sea level.

South-west of Brynberian

View from road towards Gernos-fach; the rock on the skyline is Carn Ingli, Mynydd Carningli.

Llwybr troed cyhoeddus yn mynd i gyfeiriad anhedd-dy o'r ene Penparce. A public footpath heading in the direction of a property known as Penparce (trans. top of the fields).

I was walking up the lane and became aware of 'barking' ahead of me and looked up to see a puzzled brown face looking up at me from ten feet away. "Funny cat - dog" I thought - "Fox!" and smilingly fumbled for my camera during which time he or she turned tail, still emitting little 'barks' and ran back up the lane to this point, from where he / she climbed the bank on a well used fox path and ran up into the wood, still calling. From behind a tree bole a smug adult foxy face looked back at me and I again raised my camera and zoomed in, starting to depress the 'shutter' only to see a red bushy brush disappear deeper into the wood, leaving me laughing and foolish below.

Looking WNW towards the summit area of Mynydd Carningli in SN0637

3 of the 4 carns on the summit of Carnedd Meibion-Owen (had to stand on the southern-most one to get a view of the others)

The two stones at Penparke lie in a field, about 60 or 70 yards from the roadside. The field was being actively mown for silage as I rode past, so I couldn't get any closer to the stones than the edge of the mown bit, for fear of a 'Get off my land!' from the chap on the tractor next time he came round.

The farm nestles low on the hillside, below road level, and almost hidden by surrounding trees.

The old chapel at the roadside near Cilgwyn, now converted to a house since SN0735 : Cilgwyn Chapel and SN0735 : St Mary's Church, Cilgwyn were taken.

A full description and history is at SN0635 : Trefach menhir; the Coflein database lists it as the Y Garreg-Hir stone, at Link