The Cross has many stories about its creation, some romantic others practical. Was it put there as a memorial to the German bomber that crashed on the hills side. The sad reality is that it was put there in the mid fifties as an experiment in hill sheep management by Bangor University and now there is a move to remove it. What a shame to loose this local landmark I am told that the cross will go in the interests of the CCW.

A new joint initiative between the University of Wales Bangor and the Snowdonia National Park aims to replace the old cross-shaped conifer shelter belt with an equivalent area of broadleaved woodland on the slopes below. This will be done through the Rhaglen Tir Mynydd scheme. A "footprint" of the cross will remain as a souvenir of its place in the landscape of the second half of the 20th Century. Hopefully this initiative will be the first of a number of projects to be carried out under the new AHVP Natural
Heritage Working Group. One of the aims of this group is to look for opportunities to manage the Aber landscape as a whole, challenging landowners, and all those with an economic interest in the land, to co-operate in achieving common environmental aims. The group has the technical support of the university in the form of a sophisticated landscape planning system to which it is intended that Aber residents with long memories can contribute information about landscape and wildlife change