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 [1]. The diameter is 8.7 metres and there are 18 thin jagged pillars which jut upwards from the low cairn [1]. It is thought to date back to the late third millennium BC [1]. The site was disturbed by 19th-century treasure hunters, who left a hole in the centre, indicating the position of a cist or a grave [1]. Originally there may have been about 30 pillars, each some 2 metres long [1]. Bryn Cader Faner is thought to mean 'the hill with the chair with the flag' or 'the hill of the throne with the flag' [1].