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Cromlech Farm Burial Chamber is a prehistoric chambered tomb located at Four Crosses in Wales. It stands upon bedrock of Ordovician extrusive rocks—felsic lava and tuff laid down over 440 million years ago—which would have outcropped naturally across the landscape when the monument was built. The chamber is protected by Cadw, the Welsh heritage monuments service, under the reference CN095.
Chambered tombs of this type were constructed during the Neolithic and early Bronze Age as communal burial places and ritual centres. The monument's construction would have exploited the local geology, using stone from the surrounding volcanic bedrock. Such tombs typically comprise a burial chamber built from large stone slabs, often set within or beneath an earthen mound, and typically oriented to face a cardinal direction.
The Cromlech Farm chamber remains a significant record of prehistoric funerary practice and territorial identity in the Welsh landscape. Its survival into the modern period, despite millennia of agricultural activity, reflects both the robustness of its stone construction and the enduring recognition of its importance by successive generations of inhabitants. The site contributes to understanding Neolithic and Bronze Age settlement patterns across mid-Wales.
Cromlech Farm Burial Chamber, Four Crosses is a scheduled monument protected by Cadw under reference CN095. View the official record →
Cromlech Farm Burial Chamber is a prehistoric chambered tomb located at Four Crosses in Wales. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Cadw under reference CN095.
Cromlech Farm Burial Chamber, Four Crosses dates from the prehistoric period, and is classified as a chambered tomb. It is one of over 32,000 scheduled monuments protected across the UK.
Cromlech Farm Burial Chamber, Four Crosses 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 CN095.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Four Crosses Standing Stone (0.5 km), Enclosed Hut Group at Clogwyn Bach (1.8 km), Pennarth Fawr (2.2 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 13 strands of Cromlech Farm Burial Chamber, Four Crosses's history, each drawn from the record and mapped to the exact spot:
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Cromlech Farm Burial Chamber, Four Crosses stands on Unnamed Extrusive Rocks, Ordovician, bedrock that formed in the Ordovician. The rock here is felsic lava and felsic tuff.