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Foel Lwyd is a prehistoric round cairn located in Wales and protected by Cadw under reference CN349. The monument sits upon bedrock of Ordovician felsic lava, part of the unnamed extrusive rocks that form the geological foundation of this upland region. This volcanic geology shaped the stone-rich landscape from which the cairn's builders would have drawn their materials.
Round cairns of this type were constructed during the Bronze Age and later periods as burial monuments or ceremonial structures. The monument's location on high ground with volcanic bedrock exposed nearby would have made suitable stone readily available for construction. Cairns served as enduring markers across the Welsh landscape, often positioned to be visible from considerable distances across moorland and mountain terrain.
The survival of Foel Lwyd reflects the monument's robust construction in stone and its position in a landscape where later agricultural and industrial development has been limited. The cairn remains a physical record of prehistoric monument-building practices in upland Wales, where such structures are distributed across the high ground in patterns suggesting deliberate placement within the Bronze Age settlement and territorial systems.
Foel Lwyd, cairn to N of is a scheduled monument protected by Cadw under reference CN349. View the official record →
Foel Lwyd is a prehistoric round cairn located in Wales and protected by Cadw under reference CN349.
Foel Lwyd, cairn to N of 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 Lwyd, cairn to N of 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 CN349.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Carnedd y Ddelw Cairn (3 km), Hut Circles North of Afon Anafon (3.6 km), Pen y Gaer Camp (5.1 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 13 strands of Foel Lwyd, cairn to N of'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 Lwyd, cairn to N of stands on Unnamed Extrusive Rocks, Ordovician, bedrock that formed in the Ordovician. The rock here is felsic lava.