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Banc Crucorford round cairn is a prehistoric burial monument situated on Coal Measures bedrock in Wales. The cairn rests upon mudstone, siltstone and sandstone deposits of the Westphalian period, geological strata that also contain coal and ironstone seams. This solid foundation of Lower Coal Measures rock would have provided the builder's quarry for stone, with abundant weathered material available from the local landscape. The monument is protected as a scheduled ancient monument under Cadw reference CM326, ensuring its preservation for future study.
Round cairns of this type were constructed across Britain during the Bronze Age as burial structures, typically heaped over inhumed or cremated remains. Banc Crucorford follows the characteristic form of such monuments, mounded and circular in plan. The specific topography and geology of this Welsh location determined both the construction methods available to its builders and the long-term preservation of the site.
The monument survives within the modern Welsh landscape as evidence of prehistoric funerary practice and ritual. Its position on readily quarriable bedrock illustrates how Neolithic and Bronze Age communities selected sites with practical advantages for monument construction, building their memorials from the stone beneath their feet.
Banc Crucorford round cairn is a scheduled monument protected by Cadw under reference CM326. View the official record →
Banc Crucorford round cairn is a prehistoric burial monument situated on Coal Measures bedrock in Wales. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Cadw under reference CM326.
Banc Crucorford round cairn dates from the prehistoric period, and is classified as a round cairn. It is one of over 32,000 scheduled monuments protected across the UK.
Banc Crucorford round 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 CM326.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Bancbryn cairn cemetery (5.9 km), Bancbryn platform cairn (6.2 km), Penlle'r Castell (6.3 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 13 strands of Banc Crucorford round cairn'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.
Banc Crucorford round cairn stands on Pennine Lower Coal Measures Formation And South Wales Lower Coal Measures Formation (Undifferentiated), bedrock that formed in the Westphalian. The rock here is mudstone, siltstone, sandstone, coal, ironstone and ferricrete.