“The following summer Owain rose with 120 reckless men and robbers and he brought them in warlike fashion to the uplands of Ceredigion: and 1,500 men of the lowlands of Ceredigion and of Rhos and Penfro assembled there and came to the mountain with the intent to seize Owain. The encounter was on Hyddgen Mountain, and no sooner did the English troops turn their backs in light than 200 of them were slain.”
MS. Peniarth 135
PEN PUMLUMON Fawr is a considerable hill, lofty and remote, but its neighbour, the lesser-known Pen Pumlumon Arwystli, is much the finer summit of this remote and
