Carnedd y Ddelw is a summit in the

Carneddau The (lit. 'the cairns'; is a Welsh plural form, and is sometimes anglicised to ''Carnedds'') are a group of mountains in Snowdonia, Wales. They include the largest contiguous areas of high ground (over or high) in Wales and England (although l ...

mountains in

Wales Wales ( cy, Cymru ) is a Countries of the United Kingdom, country that is part of the United Kingdom. It is bordered by England to the Wales–England border, east, the Irish Sea to the north and west, the Celtic Sea to the south west and the ...

, north-east of

Foel-fras Foel-fras (944 m) is a mountain in the Carneddau range, about 10 km east of Bethesda in Wales. It lies on the border between the counties of Gwynedd and Conwy. With a summit elevation of 944 m it is officially the eleventh-high ...

. It is the Nuttall top of

Drum (Wales) Drum () (Welsh language, Welsh: Y Drum = ''the ridge'') is a summit in the Carneddau mountains in Wales, 2 km north-east of Foel-fras. It is 771 m (2,526 ft) high. It is also known as Carnedd Penyborth-Goch. Its eastern slop ...

. Its eastern slopes are drained by the

Afon Tafolog The Afon Tafolog is a small river in Snowdonia in north-west Wales. It is fed by a number of streams which drain the eastern slopes of Drum, a mountain in the Carneddau range. It is a tributary of Afon Roe which then flows through the village of R ...

, a tributary of

Afon Roe The Afon Roe is a small river in Snowdonia in north-west Wales. Its tributary is the Afon Tafolog, which drains the eastern slopes of Drum, a mountain in the Carneddau range. The river flows through the village of Rowen before joining the Riv ...

that flows through the village of

Rowen Rowen is a village on the western slopes of the Conwy valley in the parish of Caerhun and the former County of Caernarfonshire in Wales. It lies off the B5106 road, between Tal y Bont and the Groes Inn. ''Buildings of Gwynedd'' 2009 refers ...

before joining the

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. It is also the final top on

Carnedd Llewelyn Carnedd Llewelyn, also spelled Carnedd Llywelyn, is a mountain massif in the Carneddau range in Snowdonia, north-west Wales. It is the highest point of the Carneddau and the second highest peak by relative height in Wales, 49th ...

's long northern spur. To the north-west is

Tal y Fan Tal y Fan is an outlying peak of the Carneddau mountains in northern Wales. It is one of the four Marilyns that make up the Carneddau, the others being Carnedd Llywelyn, Pen Llithrig y Wrach and Creigiau Gleision. It is high, and lies m ...

, the most northerly 2000 foot tall mountain in the

and

. The summit has two large shelter cairns, hollowed out from a large

Bronze Age The Bronze Age is a historic period, lasting approximately from 3300 BC to 1200 BC, characterized by the use of bronze, the presence of writing in some areas, and other early features of urban civilization. The Bronze Age is the second pri ...

burial cairn.Nuttall, John & Anne (1999). The Mountains of England & Wales - Volume 1: Wales (2nd edition ed.). Milnthorpe, Cumbria: Cicerone. .

References

Mountains and hills of Snowdonia Nuttalls Mountains and hills of Conwy County Borough Mountains and hills of Gwynedd Abergwyngregyn Caerhun {{Gwynedd-geo-stub