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Crug y Bwdran is a round barrow located in Carmarthenshire, Wales, dating to the Bronze Age. The monument represents a burial mound of a type widely constructed across Britain during the second millennium before the present, serving as a focal point for ritual and funerary practices within prehistoric communities. The site's survival as an earthwork testament to Bronze Age funerary customs and its landscape position reflects the ceremonial importance afforded to prominent individuals or family groups within prehistoric Welsh society.
Crug y Bwdran is a scheduled monument protected by Cadw under reference CM074. View the official record →
Crug y Bwdran is a round barrow located in Carmarthenshire, Wales, dating to the Bronze Age. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Cadw under reference CM074.
Crug y Bwdran dates from the prehistoric period, and is classified as a round barrow. It is one of over 32,000 scheduled monuments protected across the UK.
Crug y Bwdran 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 CM074.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Pant-Teg Standing Stone (1.2 km), Crugiau Edryd Round Barrows (2.2 km), Derlwyn round barrow cemetery (3.7 km).
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