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Blaen Camddwr Round Cairn is a prehistoric round cairn located in Wales and protected by Cadw under reference CD244. The monument consists of a circular mound of stones typical of Bronze Age burial practices, constructed to cover and commemorate the dead. Such cairns served as enduring territorial markers across the upland landscape, visible from considerable distances and maintained through multiple generations.
The cairn was built upon bedrock comprising Llandovery Rocks, an undifferentiated formation of sandstone and conglomerate deposited during the Llandovery period. This interbedded geology would have presented both opportunities and challenges to the monument's builders, offering local stone suitable for cairn construction whilst the uneven substrate required careful placement to ensure stability and permanence.
The monument's survival into the modern period, despite its exposure on open Welsh moorland, testifies to the solidity of its original construction. As a scheduled ancient monument under Cadw's care, Blaen Camddwr Round Cairn remains an important record of Bronze Age burial practice and settlement patterns in Wales, contributing to understanding of prehistoric funerary tradition and landscape use across the period.
Blaen Camddwr Round Cairn is a scheduled monument protected by Cadw under reference CD244. View the official record →
Blaen Camddwr Round Cairn is a prehistoric round cairn located in Wales and protected by Cadw under reference CD244.
Blaen Camddwr 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.
Blaen Camddwr 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 CD244.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Llethr Bryn y Gorlan Platform (5.2 km), Blaen Nant-y-Rhiw Round Cairn (5.7 km), Nant Gwyddel Deserted Rural Settlement (5.9 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 13 strands of Blaen Camddwr 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.
Blaen Camddwr Round Cairn stands on Llandovery Rocks (Undifferentiated), bedrock that formed in the Llandovery. The rock here is sandstone and conglomerate, interbedded.