I did a round of Creigiau Gleission and Pen Llithrig y Wrach on Friday.
On the way up heading SSW on Pen Llithrig y Wrach's ridge I found some wreckage presumably a crash site. It was too far up for an irresponsible dump and everything seemed to be of the same vehicle. Also I did not recognise the parts to be any kind of road vehicle. I of coarse am no expert on this. Looking at the exhaust it could be an old tractor of sorts but the terrain was far from vehicle freindly and they would have had to be carried up which is very unlikely and besides farmers have more sence than to dump like this. The remains are rusted and could even be an old aircraft that crashed there and the remains left undisturbed so to speak.
I have looked on the net about any recorded crashes on Pen Llithrig y Wrach and found nothing.
These are by no means the exact coord's but will give you a rough idea of where I found them:
SH 72780 63555
Here is a web link I knocked up with some reduced resolution images of the pictures I took.
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Anyone any ideas of the incident or even recognise the vehicle parts enough to identify it?
From the looks of the bits, I reckon they're parts of an aircraft. There looks like to be some alluminium sheet metal bits and the rusty steel bits have lightening holes punched in - you wouldn't get that on a tractor! You should have looked for part numbers, serial numbers and inspection stamps, which would have helped identify the bits. Possibly the light alloy bit in the top left hand of the lower image might be part of a wing or aileron rib.
With obvious due repsect to lives lost and there relations it's nice to find something like this that has a little bit of a story behind it.
Thanks for checking that out for me.
Sie
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According to the small book 'High Ground Wrecks and Relics' it is an Avro Anson which crashed on 20th February 1944. There were four survivors, which means at least one person was killed because if no-one was the entry would have read "all crew survived".
The location is given as Llyn Cowlyd, which is of course the reservoir below the mountain. The map reference of 727636 clinches it.
I did a round of Creigiau Gleission and Pen Llithrig y Wrach on Friday.
On the way up heading SSW on Pen Llithrig y Wrach's ridge I found some wreckage presumably a crash site. It was too far up for an irresponsible dump and everything seemed to be of the same vehicle. Also I did not recognise the parts to be any kind of road vehicle. I of coarse am no expert on this. Looking at the exhaust it could be an old tractor of sorts but the terrain was far from vehicle freindly and they would have had to be carried up which is very unlikely and besides farmers have more sence than to dump like this. The remains are rusted and could even be an old aircraft that crashed there and the remains left undisturbed so to speak.
I have looked on the net about any recorded crashes on Pen Llithrig y Wrach and found nothing.
These are by no means the exact coord's but will give you a rough idea of where I found them:
SH 72780 63555
Here is a web link I knocked up with some reduced resolution images of the pictures I took.
