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Carn Fawr Round Cairn is a prehistoric round cairn situated in Wales and protected as a scheduled monument by Cadw under reference CM169. Round cairns of this type were constructed during the Bronze Age as burial monuments, typically comprising a mound of stone heaped over a central grave or graves. The cairn's construction would have utilised locally available materials, which in this location derive from the Llandovery Rocks formation beneath the site—a Silurian-age bedrock composed of interbedded sandstone and conglomerate that provided substantial stone suitable for monument building.
The monument's survival to the present day, despite the passage of millennia and subsequent land use, testifies to the substantial nature of its original construction. The surrounding landscape and exposed geology have shaped both the cairn's form and its regional context within the broader pattern of Bronze Age burial practice in Wales.
Carn Fawr Round Cairn remains an important archaeological resource for understanding prehistoric funerary practices and settlement patterns in its locality. Its protection under Cadw ensures its preservation for future study and as a physical link to the communities who built and used it in antiquity.
Carn Fawr Round Cairn is a scheduled monument protected by Cadw under reference CM169. View the official record →
Carn Fawr Round Cairn is a prehistoric round cairn situated in Wales and protected as a scheduled monument by Cadw under reference CM169.
Carn Fawr 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.
Carn Fawr 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 CM169.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Cothi Roman Aqueduct (7.7 km), Banc Maes-yr-Haidd barrows (7.8 km), Pen Cerrigdiddos Round Cairns (8 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 13 strands of Carn Fawr 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.
Carn Fawr Round Cairn stands on Llandovery Rocks (Undifferentiated), bedrock that formed in the Llandovery. The rock here is sandstone and conglomerate, interbedded.