Black Mixen

{{Short description|Mountain in Powys, Wales}} {{Use dmy dates|date=March 2020}} {{Infobox mountain | name = Black Mixen | image = Black Mixen moorland.jpg | image_caption = Black Mixen and the communications mast from the Rhos Fawr plateau | elevation_m = 650 | elevation_ref = | prominence_m = 45 | parent_peak = Rhos Fawr | listing = Hewitt, Nuttall, | location = Powys, Wales | range = Cambrian Mountains | coordinates = {{coord|52.2718|-3.1789|type:mountain_region:GB|display=inline,title}} | grid_ref_UK = SO182639 | topo = OS ''Landranger'' 148 }}

'''Black Mixen''' ({{langx|cy|Y Domen Ddu}}) is a subsidiary summit of Rhos Fawr or Great Rhos in the Radnor Forest. The summit is large peat bog plateau. The summit is marked with a cairn, and is next to a radio transmitter and its building.<ref>Nuttall, John & Anne (1999). The Mountains of England & Wales - Volume 1: Wales (2nd edition ed.). Milnthorpe, Cumbria: Cicerone. {{ISBN|1-85284-304-7}}.</ref>

Black Mixen is the only Nuttall to have a communications mast (a radio transmitter) on its summit.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.mountains-snowandrock.org.uk/Wales/pumlumon.php |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20020508122948/http://www.mountains-snowandrock.org.uk/Wales/pumlumon.php |url-status=dead |archive-date=2002-05-08 |title=Pumlumon |accessdate=2007-04-22 }}</ref> To the east is Bache Hill, to the south are the Black Mountains, to the west is the Great Rhos plateau.

The summit cairn is probably of Bronze Age date, with most peaks in the area showing similar barrowss.

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==External links== *[https://www.geograph.org.uk/search.php?i=2798081 www.geograph.co.uk : photos of Great Rhos and surrounding area]

Category:Radnor Forest Category:Mountains and hills of Powys Category:Hewitts of Wales Category:Nuttalls