Banc y Celyn, Brecknockshire - Royal Commission on the Ancient ...

Uplands Initiative – <strong>Banc</strong> y <strong>Celyn</strong> 20086.3 Sites for pollen analysis and other environmental sampling, see Fig. 14Centred on:SO0410846586SO0480846902SO0426540260Pant y Llyn Mire (see Figure 43): A large, waterlogged area,immediately adjacent to an area of settlement and ridge andfurrow cultivation.Black Pit (see Figure 44): An area of raised bog, due west of thesettlement and cultivation at Pant y Llyn, and north of an area ofsettlement and cultivation at Waun Hirwaun.Pool on Cefn Clawdd (see Figure 20): A small natural lake,close to the Cefn Clawdd Cairn II and south of the cultivatedfields at the Cwm Hafotty Farmstead.Plate 42: Erosion on Cefn Gledwen, exposing a thin peat, c.0.4m deep, overlyingboulder clay. There is relatively little peat across the study area, and where it wasseen exposed it was rarely as thick as seen here.76