Many thanks to Hugh Thomas for publishing this image in his recent drone footage of Carningli -- published on Preseli 360.
It shows the very subtle semicircular "bank" of stones around the edge of the grassy hollow on the summit of the mountain. According to legend, this is where St Brynach communed with the angels. It is quite possible that there was a rough shelter here, using the rocky outcrops for half of the circle and a little bank of boulders and stones for the other half, maybe with roof of supporting branches covered with rough thatch or bark and turfs. Maybe it was horizontal, or maybe sloping.
There have been no excavations here as far as we know. But there has been intermittent occupation of the mountain down through the centuries -- so a shelter here could be Bronze Age, or Iron Age, or from the Age of the Saints, or even from the Middle Ages. Maybe it was even built and rebuilt many times....... by people who needed to be up here for one reason or another......
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