Black Mixen ( cy, Y Domen Ddu) is a subsidiary summit of

Rhos Fawr Rhos Fawr is a mountain summit in the Radnor Forest ( Mid Wales), a rather isolated dome of hills to the north of the village of New Radnor. The local rocks are sedimentary shales and mudstones with some Silurian limestone. With a height ...

or Great Rhos in the

Radnor Forest Radnor Forest ( cy, Fforest Clud) in the county of Radnorshire, Wales is a rock dome composed of Silurian shales, mudstones and limestone in Mid Wales. It is a forest in the medieval sense of the word (an area of land set aside for hunting). I ...

. The summit is large peat

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plateau. The summit is marked with a cairn, and is next to a radio transmitter and its building. Black Mixen is the only

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to have a communications mast (a

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) on its summit. To the east is Bache Hill, to the south are the Black Mountains, to the west is the Great Rhos plateau. The summit cairn is probably of

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date, with most peaks in the area showing similar barrowss.

References

External links

www.geograph.co.uk : photos of Great Rhos and surrounding area
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