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Allt Lwyd Bronze Age Ritual Complex is a prehistoric cairn located in Wales and protected as a scheduled monument by Cadw under reference ME213. The site sits upon bedrock of Ordovician Extrusive Rocks, comprising mafic lavas and tuffs formed during the Ordovician period over 440 million years ago. This volcanic geology has shaped the local landscape and the stone resources available to Bronze Age communities.
The cairn represents a significant ritual and burial focus for prehistoric inhabitants of the region. Such monuments typically served as communal burial places and ceremonial centres, constructed through the accumulation of stone gathered from the surrounding terrain. The dark volcanic stones of the underlying bedrock would have been readily accessible for this monumental construction.
Bronze Age ritual complexes of this type reflect the spiritual beliefs and social organisation of their builders. The monument's survival to the modern day, despite millennia of agricultural use and weathering, testifies to its original substantial construction. Its protected status acknowledges the importance of the site to understanding prehistoric Welsh settlement, burial practice and the relationship between early communities and their geological environment.
Allt Lwyd Bronze Age Ritual Complex is a scheduled monument protected by Cadw under reference ME213. View the official record →
Allt Lwyd Bronze Age Ritual Complex is a prehistoric cairn located in Wales and protected as a scheduled monument by Cadw under reference ME213.
Allt Lwyd Bronze Age Ritual Complex dates from the prehistoric period, and is classified as a cairn. It is one of over 32,000 scheduled monuments protected across the UK.
Allt Lwyd Bronze Age Ritual Complex 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 ME213.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Waen Fach Standing Stone (3.4 km), Crop marks (revealed by Aerial photography) SE of Pen-y-Sarn, Bryn-Crug (4.3 km), Domen Ddreiniog (4.4 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 13 strands of Allt Lwyd Bronze Age Ritual Complex's history, each drawn from the record and mapped to the exact spot:
Every location is different. Not every section appears for every place, only what the historical record actually holds turns up in a report.
Allt Lwyd Bronze Age Ritual Complex stands on Unnamed Extrusive Rocks, Ordovician, bedrock that formed in the Ordovician. The rock here is mafic lava and mafic tuff.