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Cooking Mound East of Taff Terrace is a prehistoric burnt mound located in Wales. Burnt mounds are among the most common prehistoric monuments in Britain and Ireland, typically comprising heaps of fire-cracked stone accumulated through repeated heating and cooling cycles. Dating from the Bronze Age, these sites represent the remains of industrial or domestic activities requiring intense heat, most commonly associated with cooking, water heating, or metalworking processes. The mound sits upon Lower Devonian bedrock of sandstone and conglomerate, interbedded deposits formed during the Early Devonian period around 400 million years ago.
The site's survival and archaeological significance have led to its protection by Cadw, the Welsh heritage organisation, under reference GM427. The underlying geology of alternating sandstone and conglomerate would have provided suitable stone for the hot-rock heating processes that characterise burnt mound use, with naturally fractured stone readily available for collection and use.
The monument contributes to our understanding of Bronze Age settlement patterns and resource exploitation in Wales, standing as physical evidence of prehistoric technological practices and daily life in the landscape east of Taff Terrace.
Cooking Mound East of Taff Terrace is a scheduled monument protected by Cadw under reference GM427. View the official record →
Cooking Mound East of Taff Terrace is a prehistoric burnt mound located in Wales. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Cadw under reference GM427.
Cooking Mound East of Taff Terrace dates from the prehistoric period, and is classified as a burnt mound. It is one of over 32,000 scheduled monuments protected across the UK.
Cooking Mound East of Taff Terrace 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 GM427.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Greave Round Barrow (6.8 km), Pillar-Cross in Llandough Churchyard (7.6 km), Cwm George Camp (7.9 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 13 strands of Cooking Mound East of Taff Terrace'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.
Cooking Mound East of Taff Terrace stands on Lower Devonian Rocks (Undifferentiated), bedrock that formed in the Early Devonian. The rock here is sandstone and conglomerate, interbedded.