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Garn Gron Round Cairn Cemetery is a prehistoric round cairn located in Wales and protected as a scheduled monument by Cadw under reference CD219. The monument sits upon bedrock composed of Llandovery rocks, a formation of sandstone and conglomerate deposits laid down during the Llandovery period of the Paleozoic era. This geology would have been well-established in the landscape when the cairn was constructed during the Bronze Age or earlier prehistoric periods.
Round cairns of this type served as burial monuments and were typically built from stone gathered from the surrounding landscape. The construction of such a cemetery indicates sustained use of the site for funerary purposes across a period of time, suggesting the location held significance for the communities who deposited their dead there. The Llandovery bedrock's mixed composition of harder sandstone interbedded with conglomerate would have provided accessible stone suitable for monument building.
The monument's protection under Cadw reflects its importance to Wales's prehistoric heritage. Such cairn cemeteries contribute to our understanding of Bronze Age and earlier settlement patterns, burial practices, and land use across the Welsh landscape. The site remains a physical link to the people who inhabited this region in antiquity and chose to mark the ground with enduring stone structures.
Garn Gron Round Cairn Cemetery is a scheduled monument protected by Cadw under reference CD219. View the official record →
Garn Gron Round Cairn Cemetery is a prehistoric round cairn located in Wales and protected as a scheduled monument by Cadw under reference CD219.
Garn Gron Round Cairn Cemetery 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.
Garn Gron Round Cairn Cemetery 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 CD219.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Nantymaen Standing Stone (3.5 km), Cefncerrig Round Cairn (3.9 km), Stone Circle and Associated Structures on Bryn y Gorlan (6.5 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 13 strands of Garn Gron Round Cairn Cemetery'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.
Garn Gron Round Cairn Cemetery stands on Llandovery Rocks (Undifferentiated), bedrock that formed in the Llandovery. The rock here is sandstone and conglomerate, interbedded.