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Gelli Gethin Round Cairn is a prehistoric funerary monument located in Wales, designated as a scheduled ancient monument under Cadw reference SAM MG272. The cairn dates to the Bronze Age and represents a form of burial practice common across Wales during this period, when communities constructed substantial stone mounds to inter their dead and conduct ritual activities. The monument survives as a circular stone cairn, the physical remains of what would have served as both a burial structure and a focus for communal religious and ceremonial practice. Such cairns are significant archaeological features for understanding Bronze Age mortuary customs, social organisation, and settlement patterns in the Welsh landscape.
Gelli Gethin Round Cairn is a scheduled monument protected by Cadw under reference MG272. View the official record →
Gelli Gethin Round Cairn is a prehistoric funerary monument located in Wales, designated as a scheduled ancient monument under Cadw reference SAM MG272. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Cadw under reference MG272.
Gelli Gethin 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 Britain.
Gelli Gethin 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 MG272.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Pen y Groes Uchaf Cairn (7.6 km), Bryn Du hut circle (8.3 km), Llyn y Tarw ritual complex (8.5 km).
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