Bryn Cader Faner
The Bryn Cader Faner is a Bronze Age round cairn which lies to the east of the small hamlet of Talsarnau in the Ardudwy area of Gwynedd in Wales. The diameter is 8.7 metres and there are 18 thin jagged pillars which jut upwards from the low cairn.- Type: Archaeological site
- Description: archaeological site in Gwynedd, Wales, UK
- Also known as: “Bryn Cader Faner Cairn Circle, Talsarnau” and “Bryn Cader-Faner Round Cairn”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Llyn Caerwych and Moel Ysgyfarnogod.
Moel Ysgyfarnogod
Peak
Photo: Dewi, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Moel Ysgyfarnogod is a mountain in Snowdonia, North Wales and is the northernmost of the Rhinogydd. Rhinog Fawr lies directly south. It overlooks Llyn Trawsfynydd, and from the summit it is possible to see the towns of Porthmadog and Blaenau Ffestiniog.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Llandecwyn and Soar.
Llandecwyn
Hamlet
Photo: gwyn, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Llandecwyn is a hamlet near Penrhyndeudraeth in Gwynedd, Wales. The bulk of the population is now located around Cilfor close to the A496 road and served by Llandecwyn railway station, with a cluster of under ten houses around the road junction at Capel Brontecwyn half a mile up the hill to the southeast, and other isolated houses and farms scattered across the hillsides. Llandecwyn is situated 1½ miles northwest of Bryn Cader Faner.
Soar
Village
Photo: Arthur C Harris, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Soar is a small village or hamlet in Gwynedd, Wales. It is located about 4 miles northeast of Harlech, close to Talsarnau and Llandecwyn. It has no school; children in the hamlet go to school in Talsarnau. Soar is situated 2 miles west of Bryn Cader Faner.
Eisingrug
Hamlet
Photo: Nigel Brown, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Eisingrug is a rural hamlet near Harlech, Gwynedd, Wales. It is located to the southeast of Porthmadog. Formerly at the edge of the parish of Llandecwyn, the hamlet was served by the church of Saint Tecwyn in the hills above Llandecwyn, and a Wesleyan Methodist chapel at the other end of the Bryn Bwbach to Esingrug road. Eisingrug is situated 2 miles west of Bryn Cader Faner.
Bryn Cader Faner
- Categories: round cairn, building, historic site, tourist attraction, and tourism
- Location: Talsarnau, Gwynedd, North Wales, Wales, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
52.89823° or 52° 53′ 54″ northLongitude
-4.01138° or 4° 0′ 41″ westOpen location code
9C4QVXXQ+7COpenStreetMap ID
way 356751199OpenStreetMap feature
building=yesOpenStreetMap feature
historic=archaeological_siteWikidata ID
Q3402186
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In Other Languages
From Breton to Welsh—“Bryn Cader Faner” goes by many names.
- Breton: “Bryn Cader Faner”
- German: “Bryn Cader Faner”
- Japanese: “ブラン・カデル・ヴァネル”
- Welsh: “Bryn Cader Faner”
- Welsh: “Bryn Cader-Faner Round Cairn”
- Welsh: “Carnedd gron copa’r Eifl”
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