Fan Brycheiniog Fan Brycheiniog Fan Brycheiniog is the highest peak at 2633 feet (just over 800 m) in the Black Mountain ("Y Mynydd Du") region of the Brecon Beacons National Park in southern Wales. There is a trig point at the peak and on the edge of the escarpment, and nearby, a stone shelter with an inner seat. It is just inside the county of Powys, formerly Brecknockshire, the Welsh name of which gives the mountain its name. It is also within the Fforest Fawr Geopark designated in 2005 in recognition of the area's geological heritage. The views of the moorland and
Pen y Fan held the ashes or other remnants of a dead person or persons since multiple burials together are common in the British Bronze Age. It also held grave goods left with the human remains, such as flint tools, cinerary urns, or flower tributes. The similar round barrow on Fan Foel was excavated in 2002-4 and revealed such items in the central cist, the flowers being those of meadowsweet. The name "Pen y Fan" consists of the Welsh words "pen" ('top, head, peak, summit', etc.), "y" ('the') and "fan", a mutated form of "ban" ('summit, crest, peak, beacon, hill, mountain', etc.). The