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Name:Pen y Gaer
Hill number:14472
Height:389m / 1276ft
Parent (Ma):1952  Gyrn Ddu
RHB Section:30A: Anglesey and the Lleyn Peninsula
County/UA:Gwynedd
Catchment:Erch, Catchment Boundaries
Class:Tump (300-399m)
(Tu,3)
Grid ref:SH 42903 45551
Summit feature:outcrop
Drop:53m
Col:336m  SH428457  
OS map sheet(s):(1:50k) 115 123
(1:25k) 254
Survey:obvious summit
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Logged Descriptions  (logged by 22 users)ByDate of Ascent
From Moel Bronmiod, contouring round by the upper wall and sheepfold. Fine summit and views. Onwards to Bwlch Mawr.Minto16/07/2023
From Moel Bronmiod on Access Land. Met back up with Minto on the summit, having parted company earlier on Gyrn Goch.Dangerous Dave16/07/2023
Parked on a farm track just past Pen-Sarn. You can go from Llanaelhaearn and do all 6 in one day but I never have time. The farmer came down on his quad bike and I tried my best to keep up with the Welsh, he was really happy to show me the way up as there's cows with calves and it can be dangerous. We went through two gates, then a track upward, over a wall and up over some rocks. It was so windy at the top, felt like I could be blown over if I didn't hold on but it's got really nice views.Skarletk01/10/2021
From the end of the road to the SW. 42195 44720.clivevilla23/08/2021
https://www.strava.com/activities/4195048902Sleepwa1ker15/09/2019
Small rock outcrop on grass moss ridge of distinctive knoll with large wild area of sheep pasture. Gorgeous sunny day to do this lovely circuit- from Bwlch Mawr.Denise 08/04/2018
Pleasant gentle descent on sheep tracks(?) from Bwlch Mawr. A few stone walls to negotiate.RichardM08/04/2018
From Bwlch Mawr on a CW circuit of 6 hills, on to Moel Bronmiod. Parking at entrance to Ynys Ddu farm (SH 3971 4523).jonglew08/09/2017
Anticlockwise route over 5 tops of the group. A very fine summit. Very rough going.stig_nest20/07/2017
The walls round these parts are a pain. Followed wall S from Bwlch Mawr and were lucky with a couple of gates but final barbed-wire-fringed wall was trickier. A very shapely hill though, with weathered ditch and rampart enclosure around the top. Then back over the wall and vague farm track NE to road (and another wall to cross).milimana02/03/2017
With Jenx on the Marilyn circuit. Fine circuit this.nordicstar24/06/2015
From SW, path marker in farmyard has been moved but go past house, turn L then R, then obvious lane. Once across stream head due N to find gate in wall at SH42574561: wall is otherwise awkward to cross.RHW23/03/2014
Matt17/11/2023
Jill Robertson16/07/2023
David Gradwell02/08/2019
MM10/07/2018
andrew brown05/08/2017
TK25/06/2016
Alex C08/07/2014
BrianMatthews26/03/2008
andrew.allum01/01/2000
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