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Bryn
Cader Faner The OS Map 124 and a compass are essential for this walk as the footpath is very unclear and disappears in bogs or just fades out as it is very isolated and not frequently walked. Directions
Just beyond this junction is a standing stone (SH 599 309)
Standing Stone in the fog Turn left here and go up the lane for about 1.5 miles until a footpath crosses it. Park and take the left path for about half a mile to find a stone circle above on the left. Return to the junction at the first standing stone and turn right heading back to Eisingrug. There are three standing stones on the way, the next just beyond a cattle grid (SH 602 314)
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standing stone in the
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When you come to a
junction with a public footpath where someone has painted “no parking”
on a stone, park on the edge and walk up the path to find standing stones
and ring cairns about half a mile on it. Due to the dreadful weather on the day we went we couldn’t get to
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Return to Eisingrug and turn right where there is a small hotel sign up a narrow lane with a no through road sign towards Bryn Cader Faner. Continue as far as you can uphill go through one gate (be sure to close it after you) and park up next to another about half a mile further on. This is quite deceptive here as the footpath sign has been removed on the track you want and the gate is padlocked. Do not go through the open gate with the footpath sign on the left - we did and wasted a lot of time and energy. Instead cross the track and go round the locked gate and head uphill following the path which curves to the right. You must have a map and compass.
Car parking space
View towards the sea from the path You should now be on the footpath to SH 648 353. Continue up going through a total of four gates. After the 4th gate watch when the track veers away from the stone wall to the right. As it bends away look very carefully for a very vague left fork in the path. It veers back to the wall and follows along it where the wall bends to the left. (If you miss this turn you will come to two small lakes. Turn north here and keep going until you meet the track heading northeast to the stone circle, do not go uphill between the lakes).
View on the path Follow this grassy
track through streams and bogs and you come to a stone cairn on the right
of the track. Some of the stones in the cairn are positioned in the same
way as the Bryn Cader Faner circle. There is another
stone circle near here on a right fork on this track about 200 metres
further on at SH 642 346. This is at Llyn Eiddew Bach – the Little Ivy
Lake. The tallest is only 2.5 feet high (0.75m) and it is incomplete with
three apparent graves or cysts in it.
Llyn Eiddew Bach - SH 642 346 Continue on the track and the Bryn Cader
Faner circle will come into view on the horizon
Bryn
Cader Faner Details and close ups of Bryn Cader Faner
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