Bryn Cader Faner – the finest bronze age ring cairn in Wales
This site is instantly recognisable because of the unique incorporation of standing stones around the circumference... described as projecting out like the rays of the sun, being set like a radiant diadem or fanning out like a crown of thorns... but the jewel in this crown must surely be the location.

In the heart Eryri National Park, with Yr Wyddfa’s pyramidal peak taking pride of place to the North... Bryn Cader Faner is set at the end of a bronze age trackway, connecting a large collection of contemporary monuments. So when you approached from the south, as we’ve done today, you get to walk this ancient route, looking out for the remains of these structures along the way… until Bryn Cader Faner finally appears, seemingly positioned so that it is at full dramatic effect, silhouetted against the sky for a long distance…

Described by archaeologist Frances Lynch as ‘arguably the most beautiful bronze age monument in Britain... It has miraculously survived the treasure hunters who dug into the centre… The army who damaged it during manoeuvrers… and the untold number of visitors who have interfered with it...

----------------------------------------------------------------
  / coraljackz  
  / coraljackz  
  / coraljackz  
----------------------------------------------------------------
Resources and further reading;
1) https://www.prehistoricsociety.org/si...
2) https://coflein.gov.uk/en/archive/653... )
3) https://archive.org/details/gwynedd00...
4) Writings by Edward Llwyd from around the year 1698 were reprinted in 1910 in the Archaeologia Cambrensis
5) Bowen, E.G. & Gresham, C.A. 1967. History of Merioneth, I. Dolgellau: Merioneth Historical & Record Society.
6)Burl, A. 1976. The stone circles of the British Isles. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press.
7)Lynch, F. 1979. Ring cairns in Britain and Ireland: Their design and purpose (the Oliver Davies Lecture for 1979). Ulster Journal of Archaeology, Third Series 42, 1–19