Post Coch

The Post-Coch (red post) or Post-y-wiber (the viper’s post) is about 150 yards from the Llanfyllin to Llanrhaeadr-ym-Mochnant road and stands about 13' tall. It probably dates from the Bronze Age but one local legend is that a viper, or dragon was terrorising the people of Penygarnedd, and this stone was put in its path with spikes fixed to it. The red colour of the stone enraged the viper, so it attacked the stone and bled to death on its spikes!