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Croes y Bwlchgwyn Round Cairn is a Neolithic or Bronze Age funerary monument located in Wales, designated as a scheduled ancient monument under the reference Cadw SAM GM250. The cairn comprises a circular mound of stones constructed as a burial monument, characteristic of prehistoric ritual and funerary practice in Wales during the third and second millennia before the common era. Its survival as an upstanding monument indicates the substantial investment of labour in its construction and reflects the importance of formal burial rites and ancestral commemoration in prehistoric Welsh communities. The monument forms part of the wider distribution of cairn burials across the Welsh landscape, serving as evidence for settlement patterns and religious beliefs during the Neolithic and Bronze Age periods.
Croes y Bwlchgwyn Round Cairn is a scheduled monument protected by Cadw under reference GM250. View the official record →
Croes y Bwlchgwyn Round Cairn is a Neolithic or Bronze Age funerary monument located in Wales, designated as a scheduled ancient monument under the reference Cadw SAM GM250. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Cadw under reference GM250.
Croes y Bwlchgwyn Round 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.
Croes y Bwlchgwyn Round 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 GM250.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Cefn Cribwr Ironworks (8.3 km), Cefn Cross Standing Stone (8.3 km), Three Pillow Mounds on Cefn Hirgoed (8.4 km).
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