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Hengwm Ring Cairns is a Bronze Age ring cairn located in Ceredigion, Wales, designated as a scheduled ancient monument under the Cadw reference CD278. The site comprises a circular or near-circular cairn of stone, characteristic of the ring cairn monument type that served ritual, ceremonial, and funerary functions during the Bronze Age. Ring cairns of this kind typically featured a central open space or plaza surrounded by a rubble bank or kerb of stones, and many contained burials or evidence of cremation deposits. The Hengwm Ring Cairns represents an important element of the Bronze Age ritual landscape of Ceredigion and contributes to our understanding of prehistoric mortuary practice and ceremonial activity in Wales.
Hengwm Ring Cairns is a scheduled monument protected by Cadw under reference CD278. View the official record →
Hengwm Ring Cairns is a Bronze Age ring cairn located in Ceredigion, Wales, designated as a scheduled ancient monument under the Cadw reference CD278. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Cadw under reference CD278.
Hengwm Ring Cairns dates from the prehistoric period, and is classified as a ring cairn. It is one of over 32,000 scheduled monuments protected across Britain.
Hengwm Ring Cairns 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 CD278.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Carreg Wen Prehistoric Standing Stone (2.5 km), Cairns on Pen Plynlimon-Arwystli (3.3 km), Nant yr Eira Prehistoric Copper Mines & 19th Century Lead Mine (3.7 km).
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