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Cefn-y-Gadfa Stone Rows and Cists is a Bronze Age funerary monument located in Denbighshire, Wales, comprising stone rows and burial cists that reflect the ritual and religious practices of prehistoric communities. The site consists of linear arrangements of stones associated with cist burials, which served as repositories for the deceased during the Bronze Age period. Such monuments are characteristic of the burial practices and ceremonial landscapes of the second and early first millennia before Christ, when stone-built structures were erected to mark and commemorate significant burials. The alignment and arrangement of the stones suggest a formal ritual context, indicating the importance placed by Bronze Age societies on the marking and monumentalisation of burial sites within the landscape.
Cefn-y-Gadfa Stone Rows and Cists is a scheduled monument protected by Cadw under reference DE094. View the official record →
Cefn-y-Gadfa Stone Rows and Cists is a Bronze Age funerary monument located in Denbighshire, Wales, comprising stone rows and burial cists that reflect the ritual and religious practices of prehistoric communities. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Cadw under reference DE094.
Cefn-y-Gadfa Stone Rows and Cists dates from the prehistoric period, and is classified as a cist burial. It is one of over 32,000 scheduled monuments protected across Britain.
Cefn-y-Gadfa Stone Rows and Cists 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 DE094.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Hafod-y-Dre Stone Rows and Cairn (0.7 km), Y Foelas Castle Mound (1.5 km), Moel Rhiwlug Cist Cairn (1.7 km).
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