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Caer Euni Stone Circles is a Bronze Age ring cairn located in Wales, protected as a scheduled monument by Cadw under reference ME040. The monument sits upon bedrock of Llandovery Rocks, an undifferentiated sequence of mudstone, siltstone and sandstone formed during the Llandovery period. This geology has shaped both the landscape and the materials available to Bronze Age communities constructing funerary monuments in this region.
Ring cairns represent a distinctive funerary tradition of the Bronze Age, characterised by a circular arrangement of stones enclosing a central burial space. At Caer Euni, this arrangement would have served ceremonial and commemorative purposes for the communities who built it, likely marking the resting place of an individual of some social standing. The monument's preservation testifies to its enduring presence in the Welsh landscape.
The site's protection under Cadw reflects the archaeological importance of Bronze Age burial monuments in understanding settlement patterns and ritual practices across Wales during the second millennium BC. The combination of the stone circle's physical remains with the underlying Llandovery geology provides insights into how Bronze Age people exploited and adapted to their local environment. Such monuments remain crucial to interpreting prehistoric Welsh society.
Caer Euni Stone Circles is a scheduled monument protected by Cadw under reference ME040. View the official record →
Caer Euni Stone Circles is a Bronze Age ring cairn located in Wales, protected as a scheduled monument by Cadw under reference ME040.
Caer Euni Stone Circles dates from the bronze age period, and is classified as a ring cairn. It is one of over 32,000 scheduled monuments protected across the UK.
Caer Euni Stone Circles 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 ME040.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Ffridd Camen Long Hut (8.1 km), Ffridd Camen Hafodydd (8.2 km), Ring Cairn E of Ffridd Camen (8.5 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 13 strands of Caer Euni Stone Circles'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.
Caer Euni Stone Circles stands on Llandovery Rocks (Undifferentiated), bedrock that formed in the Llandovery. The rock here is mudstone, siltstone and sandstone.