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Cefn Moel Round Barrows is a Bronze Age funerary monument located in Breconshire, Wales, comprising one or more burial mounds characteristic of the ceremonial landscape of the second millennium BCE. The site represents the ritual and funerary practices of Bronze Age communities, who constructed such cairns as permanent memorials to their dead and markers of territorial significance. The monument's physical form as a round cairn or barrow is typical of the Bronze Age tradition in Wales, wherein stones were accumulated to create prominent burial structures across the upland regions. The site remains archaeologically significant as evidence of prehistoric religious and ceremonial activity in the Brecon Beacons area, though the precise internal structure and any associated grave goods require further investigation to fully establish its cultural context.
Cefn Moel Round Barrows is a scheduled monument protected by Cadw under reference BR125. View the official record →
Cefn Moel Round Barrows is a Bronze Age funerary monument located in Breconshire, Wales, comprising one or more burial mounds characteristic of the ceremonial landscape of the second millennium BCE. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Cadw under reference BR125.
Cefn Moel Round Barrows 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.
Cefn Moel Round Barrows 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 BR125.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Pant Serthfa round cairn (7.8 km), Coed Pentwyn Hillfort (8.4 km), Clo Cadno platform cairn (8.5 km).
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