These glorious images show the sun setting behind an ancient burial cairn near the Rhinogydd mountains.

Photographer Andrew Fusek Peters trekked for hours to reach Bryn Cader Faner, between Talsarnau and Trawsfynydd, reaching the summit moments before sunset.

The Bronze Age cairn – dating back to the third millennium BC – is a distinctive formation of 18 jagged pillars set in a circle.

The shots show the sun setting behind the Rhinogydd mountain range 10 miles away at the end of the scorching weekend on Sunday night.

Andrew, 54, of Lydbury North, Shropshire said: “When I’d been up there before there was just mist and I got up there on Sunday night I had no idea it would be good.

“The sky was cloudy as I trekked for an hour after leaving the car at the end of the single track road knowing I would be walking back in the dark.

“It is really remote and I got there just before sunset.

“The sun was behind the clouds but then this weird spaghetti effect started and the sun got redder and redder.

“It was really intense then it dropped out of a hole in the clouds above the mountains - they are over the estuary about ten miles away.

“It is bronze age and one of the biggest burial cairns in Wales. It was looted in the 19th century and used as target practice by the RAF in World War Two.

“There were 30 stones but only 18 are left. They bombed it - it is amazing really.

“I thought I had the shot but with you lose the stone circle in the glare of the sun.

“You have the exposure for that in the camera. The joy of modern cameras is that you get the detail of the stone circle and the amazing sunset behind.

“I was as far back as I could to a hill behind the circle trying not to fall down the slope.”