Spring 2011 issue - Clwyd-Powys Archaeological Trust

Historic landscape walksAseries of self-guided historic landscapewalks on open-access land is nowavailable on the Trust’s website (www.cpat.org.uk/walks/index.htm). The guides givedetails (see example on pages 8–9) of whereyou can park, sites of interest that you cansee on the walk, plus an indication of howlong the walk might take and how strenuousit is. The first series of walks, shown on themap below, focus on the recent survey ofprehistoric burial and ritual sites funded byCadw, including sites such a stone circles,standing stones and burial cairns largelydating to the Bronze Age (between about2300–1200 BC), but also draw attention tosites of other periods that can be seen on thewalk. It is hoped that in time walks lookingat sites of other periods will be added to thelist.Opposite The Moel Ty Uchaf stone circle,south of Llandrillo, Denbighshire, which isthe focus of one of the self-guided walks.Historic landscape walksin the Clwyd-Powys areaNote that the downloadableguides should always be used inconjunction with a suitable map,such as the Ordnance Survey1:25,000 Explorer or OutdoorLeisure series. A GPS andcompass may also be useful. Thewalks will take you into remoteupland areas and you should makesure that you are well equippedand have checked a weatherforecast before setting out.DenbighWelshpool1 Gop Cairn2 Llyn Brenig3 Llantysilio Mountain4 Eglwyseg5 Moel Ty Uchaf6 Trannon7 Corndon8 Gro Hill9 Gors Lydan10 Bache Hill11 Nant Tarw12 Mynydd Llangorse13 Pen Cerrig-calchBrecon6 7