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Foel Chwern Round Cairn is a Bronze Age funerary monument located in Glamorgan, Wales. The cairn comprises a circular mound of stones constructed as a burial structure typical of the Bronze Age period, when such monuments served as communal or individual interment places and functioned within a wider ritual landscape. The site is protected as a Scheduled Ancient Monument under the reference GM235, reflecting its significance to understanding prehistoric burial practices and settlement patterns in South Wales. Like many round cairns of this era, Foel Chwern would have represented an important focal point for the local community, marking both a place of death and serving commemorative and territorial functions within the Bronze Age economy and social organisation.
Foel Chwern Round Cairn is a scheduled monument protected by Cadw under reference GM235. View the official record →
Foel Chwern Round Cairn is a Bronze Age funerary monument located in Glamorgan, Wales. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Cadw under reference GM235.
Foel Chwern 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.
Foel Chwern 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 GM235.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Bachgen Carreg Round Cairn (5.9 km), Pebyll Ring Cairn (6.7 km), Incline Haulage Systems, Cefn Ynysfeio, Treherbert (7.6 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 13 strands of Foel Chwern Round Cairn'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.
Foel Chwern Round Cairn stands on South Wales Upper Coal Measures Formation, bedrock that formed in the Westphalian. The rock here is mudstone, siltstone, sandstone, coal, ironstone and ferricrete.