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Modern SitesSite Name: Cwm Fforest
Country: Wales County: Powys Type: Modern Stone Circle etc
Nearest Town: Brecon  Nearest Village: Pen-y-genffordd
Map Ref: SO1833029440  Landranger Map Number: 161
Latitude: 51.957424N  Longitude: 3.189915W
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
 3 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.
 2 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
 5

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What was once thought to be a Chambered Tomb, now reinterpreted as a corn drying kiln.

'A structure first noted on the edge in a bank of the Afon Rhiangoll at this site in 1924, was long considered to be a chambered tomb. Re-examination reveals this to be a ruined corn-drying kiln. Its rectangular kiln chamber abd the low, slab-roofed flue passage facing into the river gorge below, demonstrate the need for its re-interpretation'.
Coflein site no. 275610.

Note: This site is located on private land - permission should be sought from the nearby farm.
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SO1829 : Mynydd Troed from the east by Jonathan Billinger
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 1.3km E 100° Pen Trumau Ring Cairn (SO196292)
 2.4km WSW 244° Mynydd Troed* Chambered Tomb (SO16142842)
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 3.8km SSW 206° Mynydd Llangorse 2 Ring Cairn (SO166261)
 3.8km SSW 206° Mynydd Llangorse 1 Ring Cairn (SO166261)
 3.9km WNW 302° Penywyrlod* Chambered Tomb (SO15053156)
 3.9km NNE 15° Wern Frank Wood Cairn Cairn (SO194332)
 4.2km NW 317° Talgarth Hillfort (SO155326)
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 5.1km S 187° Coed y Gaer Cairn Cairn (SO1759324348)
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 5.6km S 182° Llanfihangel Cwmdu* Ancient Cross (SO18052384)
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 6.2km ENE 57° Blaenbwch* Standing Stone (Menhir) (SO23633271)
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Re: Cwm Fforest by Anonymous on Tuesday, 05 July 2022
no pictures so i assume site is destroyed.
bother, can't find my old Glyn Daniel 1954 to kook it up
Tombraider.
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Re: Cwm Fforest by SumDoood on Tuesday, 18 July 2017
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It is also known as Ty Isaf (sometimes Ty Isha, or even Tyisha), meaning, The Lowest House. Perhaps a highest house, or higher houses, were once to be found on Castell Dinas (the castle of the city), up the slope to the north. The Brecon Beacons National Park's handbook of 1967 includes a good photograph taken during the excavation of the cairn.

Overlooked by Castell Dinas, the minor valleys of the Rhiangoll to the south and the Ennig to the north would have provided a crossing route through the Black Mountains between the major valleys of the Usk to the south and the Wye to the north.
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