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Cefn Cul ring cairn is a prehistoric funerary monument located in Breconshire, Wales, and dates to the Bronze Age. The site comprises a ring cairn, a monument type consisting of a circular arrangement of stones with a hollow or open central area, characteristic of Bronze Age ritual and funerary practices in Wales. The monument's construction reflects the burial customs and ceremonial traditions of prehistoric communities in the upland regions of South Wales during the second millennium BCE. As a Scheduled Ancient Monument registered with Cadw (reference BR335), the site remains an important archaeological record of Bronze Age settlement patterns and mortuary behaviour in the Brecon Beacons area.
Cefn Cul ring cairn is a scheduled monument protected by Cadw under reference BR335. View the official record →
Cefn Cul ring cairn is a prehistoric funerary monument located in Breconshire, Wales, and dates to the Bronze Age. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Cadw under reference BR335.
Cefn Cul ring cairn dates from the prehistoric period, and is classified as a ring cairn. It is one of over 32,000 scheduled monuments protected across the UK.
Cefn Cul ring 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 BR335.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Cribarth Limestone Quarries and Tramroads (5.1 km), Pillow Mounds at Pant Mawr (6.3 km), Round Cairn NW of Blaen-Nedd Isaf (6.6 km).
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