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Carn y Hyrddod and its neighbouring cairn is a Neolithic or Bronze Age round cairn located in Wales under Cadw's scheduled ancient monument designation GM243. The site consists of two funerary monuments that form part of the broader pattern of cairn building in prehistoric Wales, reflecting the ritual and burial practices of early agricultural communities. Round cairns of this type typically served as communal or individual burial monuments and represent an important class of ceremonial landscape features across the Welsh uplands. The surviving cairn structures provide material evidence for understanding prehistoric funerary customs and the organisation of ritual space during the Neolithic and Bronze Age periods.
Carn y Hyrddod & Neighbouring Cairn is a scheduled monument protected by Cadw under reference GM243. View the official record →
Carn y Hyrddod and its neighbouring cairn is a Neolithic or Bronze Age round cairn located in Wales under Cadw's scheduled ancient monument designation GM243. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Cadw under reference GM243.
Carn y Hyrddod & Neighbouring 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 y Hyrddod & Neighbouring 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 GM243.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Cairn Lwyd (3.3 km), Round Cairn 567m East of Bryn Defaid (3.6 km), Croes y Bwlchgwyn Round Cairn (4 km).
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