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Banc y Celyn Stone Circle is a prehistoric ritual monument located in Breconshire, Wales, designated as a scheduled ancient monument under Cadw reference BR206. The circle belongs to the Bronze Age period and represents one of the ceremonial and funerary sites characteristic of upland Wales during the second millennium BCE. The monument comprises a ring of standing stones positioned on elevated terrain, reflecting the strategic placement of such ritual landscapes within the broader Bronze Age settlement pattern of the region. As a stone circle, the site would have functioned as a focus for communal religious practices and possibly funerary rites, though the specific archaeological sequences and artefactual evidence from this particular monument remain limited in the published scholarly record.
Banc y Celyn Stone Circle is a scheduled monument protected by Cadw under reference BR206. View the official record →
Banc y Celyn Stone Circle is a prehistoric ritual monument located in Breconshire, Wales, designated as a scheduled ancient monument under Cadw reference BR206. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Cadw under reference BR206.
Banc y Celyn Stone Circle dates from the prehistoric period, and is classified as a stone circle. It is one of over 32,000 scheduled monuments protected across the UK.
Banc y Celyn Stone Circle 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 BR206.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Castle Earthwork 200m S of Coed Caeau (5.1 km), Ring Cairn on Waun Gunllwch (5.3 km), Gwaun Ymryson Round Cairn (5.6 km).
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