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Corn Gafallt Cairn Cemetery is a prehistoric round cairn situated in Wales and protected by Cadw under reference BR297. Round cairns of this type were constructed across Britain and Ireland during the Bronze Age as burial monuments, typically serving as communal or individual sepulchres for communities of the period. The monument's position on bedrock formed from Llandovery sandstone and conglomerate would have provided a stable foundation, though the local stone composition likely influenced the building materials available to its constructors.
The cairn's construction reflects the practical adaptation to its immediate landscape. The interbedded sandstone and conglomerate of the underlying Llandovery rocks would have offered stone suitable for building, though not necessarily of uniform quality. Builders of Bronze Age cairns typically utilised locally available stone, shaping it into a mound that served both functional and symbolic purposes within their burial practices.
Today, the monument survives as evidence of prehistoric land use and funerary custom in Wales. Its scheduling under Cadw's protection ensures that this Bronze Age cairn remains preserved for study and public access, maintaining its value as a record of the communities who constructed it and the landscape they inhabited during the prehistoric period.
Corn Gafallt Cairn Cemetery is a scheduled monument protected by Cadw under reference BR297. View the official record →
Corn Gafallt Cairn Cemetery is a prehistoric round cairn situated in Wales and protected by Cadw under reference BR297.
Corn Gafallt Cairn Cemetery 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.
Corn Gafallt Cairn Cemetery 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 BR297.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Carn Pantmaenllwyd cairn (5.6 km), Gorllwyn round cairns (6.2 km), Gurnos ring cairn (6.8 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 13 strands of Corn Gafallt Cairn Cemetery'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.
Corn Gafallt Cairn Cemetery stands on Llandovery Rocks (Undifferentiated), bedrock that formed in the Llandovery. The rock here is sandstone and conglomerate, interbedded.