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Chepstow Park Wood Cairn is a prehistoric round cairn situated in Wales and protected as a scheduled monument by Cadw under reference MM286. The monument occupies ground underlain by Upper Devonian bedrock, a formation of sandstone and conglomerate laid down in the Late Devonian period and now exposed as weathered stone across the local landscape.
Round cairns of this type typically served as funerary monuments during the Bronze Age, constructed by heaping stone to mark burial deposits and form a focal point for ceremonial activity. The underlying geology would have provided ready access to stone suitable for cairn building, with natural outcrops of the Devonian sandstone and conglomerate offering material that could be gathered and worked by Neolithic or Bronze Age communities.
The cairn's survival and designation reflect its archaeological significance as evidence of prehistoric settlement and burial practice in the region. Such monuments contribute to understanding how ancient communities in Wales organised their landscapes and commemorated their dead across generations.
Chepstow Park Wood Cairn is a scheduled monument protected by Cadw under reference MM286. View the official record →
Chepstow Park Wood Cairn is a prehistoric round cairn situated in Wales and protected as a scheduled monument by Cadw under reference MM286.
Chepstow Park Wood 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.
Chepstow Park Wood 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 MM286.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Crick Round Barrow (7.3 km), The Berries Mound & Bailey Castle (8 km), Church Farm Romano-British settlement (8.4 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 13 strands of Chepstow Park Wood Cairn's history, each drawn from the record and mapped to the exact spot:
Every location is different. Not every section appears for every place, only what the historical record actually holds turns up in a report.
Chepstow Park Wood Cairn stands on Upper Devonian Rocks (Undifferentiated), bedrock that formed in the Late Devonian. The rock here is sandstone and conglomerate, interbedded.