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Cefn-y-Gadfa Stone Rows and Cists is a Bronze Age funerary and ritual monument complex located in Denbighshire, Wales. The site comprises stone rows and associated cist burials, features characteristic of Bronze Age ceremonial and burial practices in Wales dating to approximately the second millennium BCE. The stone rows likely served both ritual and commemorative functions, possibly marking processional routes or defining sacred spaces associated with the burial cairns and cists. The monument represents an important example of prehistoric funerary architecture and ritual landscape use in the upland regions of north Wales.
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 and ritual monument complex located in Denbighshire, Wales. 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 the UK.
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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