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Hengwm Ring Cairns is a Bronze Age funerary monument located in Ceredigion, Wales. The site comprises ring cairns, a form of burial structure characteristic of the Bronze Age period, which functioned as repositories for the deceased and served ritual purposes within prehistoric communities. Ring cairns typically consist of a circular or roughly circular mound of stones with a defined perimeter, often featuring a central burial deposit or cist. The monument is scheduled as an ancient monument under the care of Cadw, reflecting its archaeological importance to understanding Bronze Age mortuary practices and settlement patterns in the Ceredigion region.
Hengwm Ring Cairns is a scheduled monument protected by Cadw under reference CD278. View the official record →
Hengwm Ring Cairns is a Bronze Age funerary monument located in Ceredigion, Wales. 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 the UK.
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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