Latest Images by Alan Bowring http://www.geograph.org.uk/ 2013-05-24T07:05:31GMT text/html 2013-05-05T06:34:14GMT http://www.geograph.org.uk/profile/8255 Alan Bowring 51.844950 -3.115815 http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3444384 This 4m high monolith stands just inside the former Army property north of the A40 from which it is readily visible as this image shows. Made of lichen covered Old Red Sandstone it is likely Bronze Age origin. text/html 2013-04-07T11:59:07GMT http://www.geograph.org.uk/profile/8255 Alan Bowring 51.880261 -3.665572 http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3399422 Little is known about this particular stone, it doesn't even appear to have a common name. It sits on a slight platform on the tussocky western slopes of Cefn Cul. text/html 2013-03-31T20:03:36GMT http://www.geograph.org.uk/profile/8255 Alan Bowring 51.815591 -3.328057 http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3389344 Doubtless on this cold but sunny Easter Sunday there were dozens, if not hundreds of walkers on Pen y Fan and Corn Du in the distant view. There were none bar me on Cefn yr Ystrad. text/html 2013-03-31T19:57:58GMT http://www.geograph.org.uk/profile/8255 Alan Bowring 51.810448 -3.305567 http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3389328 A band of this conglomeratic gritstone reaches northwestwards across the moor. The hollow to the north and east is underlain by a finger of limestone. text/html 2013-03-31T19:53:52GMT http://www.geograph.org.uk/profile/8255 Alan Bowring 51.811457 -3.279195 http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3389316 A lone hawthorn decorates one of the shakeholes on this colder east-facing side of the valley. text/html 2013-03-31T19:47:43GMT http://www.geograph.org.uk/profile/8255 Alan Bowring 51.824187 -3.323231 http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3389298 One of several concrete (?)hopper bases remaining at this abandoned quarry site. It has since been adorned with colour. text/html 2013-03-31T19:23:45GMT http://www.geograph.org.uk/profile/8255 Alan Bowring 51.810611 -3.315145 http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3389237 The letters GH are prominent on each of these boundary stones which can be traced across the moor. They stand for Gwynne Holford, the name of the family who lived at Buckland Hall near Talybont some miles to the north but who at that time owned several thousand acres of valley and moor. text/html 2013-03-05T19:13:14GMT http://www.geograph.org.uk/profile/8255 Alan Bowring 51.799499 -3.237090 http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3358022 The new dualled alignment of the A465 Heads of the Valleys Road will run through the Rassau Industrial Estate. One of the first tasks is the clearance of trees along the route which has been proceeding during February 2013. See http://www.a465brynmawr2tredegar.co.uk/ for more about this scheme. text/html 2013-01-13T16:35:44GMT http://www.geograph.org.uk/profile/8255 Alan Bowring 51.788467 -3.356838 http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3294035 Literally the 'white knolls', the name is accurately descriptive of this landscape of quarry faces and spoil mounds by which the lines of former tramroads run. text/html 2013-01-13T16:23:35GMT http://www.geograph.org.uk/profile/8255 Alan Bowring 51.772225 -3.415050 http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3294008 One of the smaller bites of Carboniferous Limestone taken out of Cefn Cil-sanws; the rather larger Vaynor Quarry is to the east of the ridge. text/html 2013-01-13T16:17:37GMT http://www.geograph.org.uk/profile/8255 Alan Bowring 51.856613 -3.823126 http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3293997 The diminutive Afon Clydach runs somewhere through the centre of this view, at the back of a south tilting dip-slope of uppermost Old Red Sandstone. text/html 2013-01-13T16:04:46GMT http://www.geograph.org.uk/profile/8255 Alan Bowring 51.854188 -3.834499 http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3293971 Gently tilted to the south now, this once horizontal surface was exposed by quarry-workers during the first half of the twentieth century. It last saw the light of day around 350 million years ago, as the light of the sun filtered through the shallow waters of a tropical sea dappling across a lime mud. text/html 2013-01-13T15:44:51GMT http://www.geograph.org.uk/profile/8255 Alan Bowring 51.843843 -3.794011 http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3293936 The sand and the limestone from the adjacent quarry shared the same tramway transport down the mountainside. text/html 2013-01-13T15:42:28GMT http://www.geograph.org.uk/profile/8255 Alan Bowring 51.907141 -3.852358 http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3293932 Thinly bedded sandstones and siltstones contain ripples evoking their marine origin. text/html 2013-01-13T15:40:32GMT http://www.geograph.org.uk/profile/8255 Alan Bowring 51.907233 -3.852216 http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3293929 This geologically important site is protected as an SSSI.