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Afon Disgynfa Cairn is a round cairn of prehistoric date located in Wales and recorded under Cadw's Scheduled Ancient Monument designation MG264. As a funerary and ritual monument, it represents Bronze Age burial practice and religious observance in the Welsh landscape. The site consists of a circular stone cairn constructed as a communal or individual burial structure, typical of upland funerary monuments from the second millennium BCE. Such cairns served both as permanent markers of burial sites and as focal points for ritual activity, reflecting the spiritual and social importance of the dead within prehistoric Welsh communities.
Afon Disgynfa Cairn is a scheduled monument protected by Cadw under reference MG264. View the official record →
Afon Disgynfa Cairn is a round cairn of prehistoric date located in Wales and recorded under Cadw's Scheduled Ancient Monument designation MG264. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Cadw under reference MG264.
Afon Disgynfa Cairn dates from the prehistoric period, and is classified as a round cairn. It is one of over 32,000 scheduled monuments protected across Britain.
Afon Disgynfa Cairn is a Scheduled Ancient Monument, legally protected by Cadw — the body responsible for designating and safeguarding heritage sites in Wales. The official designation reference is MG264.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Carnedd Das Eithin Round Cairn (6.1 km), Bwlch Sych round cairn (7.4 km), Siglem Las conjoined round cairns (7.6 km).
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