On Foel Eryr

The Preseli hills are a tapestry of wild moor and sheep-grazed pastures which are dotted with prehistoric stone circles, standing stones and burial cairns. Perhaps more than anywhere else in Wales, the area exudes a sense of the people who lived in the Bronze and Iron Ages. Foel Eryr is itself crowned by a large Bronze Age burial cairn, from where on a clear day the views extend from Devon to Ireland and along Cardigan Bay to the hills of Snowdonia. Less than a mile from here, at Waun Mawn, is the remnant of a dismantled stone circle from where it has been postulated some at least of its bluestones were dragged 140 miles to Stonehenge.