Black Mixen

Black Mixen
Black Mixen and the communications mast from the Rhos Fawr plateau
Highest point
Elevation 650 m (2,130 ft)
Prominence 45 m (148 ft)
Parent peak Rhos Fawr
Listing Hewitt, Nuttall,
Coordinates 52°16′18″N 3°10′44″W / 52.2718°N 3.1789°W / 52.2718; -3.1789Coordinates: 52°16′18″N 3°10′44″W / 52.2718°N 3.1789°W / 52.2718; -3.1789 
Geography
Location Powys, Wales
Parent range Cambrian Mountains
OS grid SO182639
Topo map OS Landranger 148

Black Mixen (Welsh: Y Domen Ddu) is a subsidiary summit of Rhos Fawr or Great Rhos in the Radnor Forest. The summit is large peat bog plateau. The summit is marked with a cairn, and is next to a radio transmitter and its building.[1]

Black Mixen is the only Nuttall to have a communications mast (a radio transmitter) on its summit.[2] 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 Bronze age date, with most peaks in the area showing similar barrowss.

References

  1. ↑ Nuttall, John & Anne (1999). The Mountains of England & Wales - Volume 1: Wales (2nd edition ed.). Milnthorpe, Cumbria: Cicerone. ISBN 1-85284-304-7.
  2. ↑ "Pumlumon". Archived from the original on 2002-05-08. Retrieved 2007-04-22.


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