Cylchgronau Cymru

Chwiliwch trwy dros 450 o deitlau a 1.2 miliwn o dudalennau

ItrjjtfdDgia Ccmttreit0k NEW SERIES, No. XIV.—APRIL, 1853. BRESELU HILL. Breselu, or Presele, the name of the highest summit in the Pembrokeshire range of hills, which divides the county nearly equally into a northern and southern por¬ tion. The word I take to be derived from Bres,1 a round top or summit, and selu, to espy or look out, as a place of observation. This epithet is very applicable to the situation, for it rises in the centre of other lower hills, and commands a very extensive prospect of the county over both portions from sea to sea. The name is vari¬ ously written, but erroneously, as Percelly, Persely, and Percelley. Many would derive it from Preset, Celtic for a place overgrown with furze or brushwood; but this does not apply to the locality, which, on every side, is bare of all shrubs, being closely covered by an even, short, downy sward, almost similar to that of the chalk districts in England, with this difference, that here the substratum is chiefly blue slate, on which rests a dry black turf or peat, and here and there a little clay. To the south-east of this eminence there is a singular deep depression, the sides of which form nearly a semi¬ circle, very precipitous towards the centre, but which is still covered by the same short sward that constitutes a 1 More probably, perhaps, from Bre, a hill, a word of frequent occurrence in the Gododin.—Ed. Arch. Camb. ARCH. CAMB., NEW SERIES, VOL. IV. M