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Pen Cerrig-calch - Wikipedia

Coordinates: 51°53′38″N 3°08′13″W / 51.8939°N 3.1369°W

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Pen Cerrig-calch
Pen Cerrig-calch from the col leading to Pen Allt-mawr
Highest point
Elevation	701 m (2,300 ft)
Prominence	52 m (171 ft)
Parent peak	Waun Fach
Listing	Hewitt, Nuttall
Coordinates	51°53′38″N 3°08′13″W / 51.8939°N 3.1369°W / 51.8939; -3.1369
Naming
English translation	top of the limestones
Language of name	Welsh
Geography

Location	Black Mountains, Wales
OS grid	SO217223
Topo map	OS Landranger 161

Pen Cerrig-calch is a subsidiary summit of Waun Fach in the Black Mountains in the Brecon Beacons National Park in southern Powys, Wales. Its summit, at a height of 701 m (2,300 ft), is marked by a trig point. The peak sits high above the River Usk valley as it narrows above the small town of Crickhowell. The views from here are wide-ranging and extend as far as the Beacons themselves to the west. A ridge runs off to the northwest and the shoulder of Pen Gloch-y-pibwr then turns north to the secondary top of Pen Allt-mawr whose peak at 719m is also crowned by a trig point.^[1]

Geology

Like all of the hills in the Black Mountains, Pen Cerrig-calch is formed from mudstones and sandstones of the Old Red Sandstone laid down during the Devonian period but it is unusual in having a band of Carboniferous Limestone outcropping around the summit and giving rise to a few shakeholes. A classic example of an outlier, the name of the hill reflects this situation; it means 'top of the limestone rock' in Welsh. The actual summit itself is formed from pebbly sandstone of the Marros Group (formerly the Millstone Grit Series), which also dates from the Carboniferous period.
The rounded southwestern shoulder of the hill ends abruptly at a cliff by the name of Darren (Welsh 'edge') which was formed by a sizeable landslip which most probably occurred in the early post-glacial period. There are many similar landslips in the Black Mountains, where weak strata have been eroded away, and destabilized the strata above. A large area of hummocky ground abounding with boulders of Old Red Sandstone lies across the slopes below Darren.^[2]

Archaeology

The most celebrated feature of the hill is the fortification of Crug Hywel, a presumed Iron Age hillfort sitting atop a tilted mass of gritstone on the hill's southeastern spur and otherwise known as Table Mountain. However, there are also ancient cairns on each of the main tops. Small disused quarries once worked for the Old Red Sandstone are scattered across the hill's lower slopes.

Access

The upper parts of the hill are mapped as access land. Various footpaths approach the open access land from the Usk Valley and from the valley of the Grwyne Fechan to the east. The Beacons Way skirts the hill's southern and western slopes. The most popular route to the summit is the approach up the southeastern spur from Crug Hywel (Table Mountain).^[3]

References

^ Nuttall, John & Anne (1999). The Mountains of England & Wales - Volume 1: Wales (2nd edition ed.). Milnthorpe, Cumbria: Cicerone. ISBN 1-85284-304-7.
^ British Geological Survey 1:50,000 map sheet 214 'Talgarth' & accompanying sheet explanation
^ Ordnance Survey Explorer map OL13 'Brecon Beacons National Park: eastern area'

External links

www.geograph.co.uk : photos of Pen Cerrig-calch and surrounding area

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