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Carn Fflur Round Cairn Cemetery is a prehistoric burial monument situated in Wales, comprising multiple round cairns arranged as a cemetery complex. The site rests upon bedrock of Llandovery age, composed of interbedded sandstone and conglomerate that would have been readily available for cairn construction. This geology provided suitable stone for the ancient builders and would have influenced the landscape and accessibility of the location for those establishing their burial ground.
The cemetery represents a communal burial practice typical of prehistoric Wales, where successive generations interred their dead at a shared sacred location. Round cairns of this type generally date to the Bronze Age, though some may have origins in the Neolithic period. The clustering of multiple cairns at Carn Fflur reflects the importance placed upon maintaining family or clan burial sites across considerable periods of time.
The monument is formally protected by Cadw, the Welsh Historic Monuments service, under reference CD186, ensuring its preservation for future study and public understanding. The site's survival on the Welsh landscape offers valuable evidence of prehistoric burial customs, settlement patterns and social organisation, whilst the local geology demonstrates the practical knowledge prehistoric communities possessed regarding available building materials.
Carn Fflur Round Cairn Cemetery is a scheduled monument protected by Cadw under reference CD186. View the official record →
Carn Fflur Round Cairn Cemetery is a prehistoric burial monument situated in Wales, comprising multiple round cairns arranged as a cemetery complex. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Cadw under reference CD186.
Carn Fflur Round Cairn Cemetery dates from the prehistoric period, and is classified as a cairn cemetery. It is one of over 32,000 scheduled monuments protected across the UK.
Carn Fflur Round Cairn Cemetery 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 CD186.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Nantymaen Standing Stone (4.4 km), Cefncerrig Round Cairn (4.8 km), Stone Circle and Associated Structures on Bryn y Gorlan (7.6 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 13 strands of Carn Fflur Round Cairn Cemetery'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 Fflur Round Cairn Cemetery stands on Llandovery Rocks (Undifferentiated), bedrock that formed in the Llandovery. The rock here is sandstone and conglomerate, interbedded.