Firstly, completely rebuilding the hills and creating a new Pillar, this first scene shows an elevated view looking from Welshpool towards the hills and Shropshire beyond. The road just seen in the lower part of the scene would be the A483 between Oswestry and Welshpool. The second is a total remake of an old image I did back in 2009 (still in my gallery here). I reused the hill model, but retextured and changed the ecosystem, and of course, changed the pillar as the original was rather iffy made with Vue primitives. Although the pillar isn't viewed close up, I wanted to recreate it as it should be! For many years, as a child, I didn't know this hill had a name. I always called it "The Mountain With The Funny Top" (well, I WAS only 5 or 6 when I named it!). Travelling home from the direction of Welshpool, back to the English border, as you travel the road, the shape of the hill changes quite dramatically, and at a certain point, giving and almost squared-off piece on the top. Hence the name. ******************************************* Breidden Hill is a steep-sided hill in Powys, Wales, near the town of Welshpool and the border between Wales and England. The peak of the hill reaches 1,204 ft. Footpaths which lead up to the summit provide excellent 360 degree views over Powys and over the border with England to the Shropshire Plain. Breidden Hill is one of five peaks with neighbouring Moel y Golfa, which is the highest at 1,322 ft, which is a "Marilyn", with a prominence of 856 ft. The three others, which are all over 800 feet high, are Cefn y Castell (also known as Middletown Hill), Kempsters Hill and Bausley Hill with its Iron Age galleried fortification. The five hills are sometimes collectively known as the Breidden Hills, and form a northern extension of the Long Mountain. There are remains of a British Iron Age hillfort which may have been the site of the last stand of Caractacus. Rodney's Pillar at the top was built by the gentlemen of Montgomeryshire who supplied oak wood from the area and shipped it down the River Severn (which runs nearby at Bausley with Criggion) to Bristol where Admiral Rodney's naval fleet was built. Rodney's Pillar is increasingly being used as a navigational aid by helicopter pilots in this area, due to its visibility from large areas of Wales.