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Llecheiddior Round Cairns is a prehistoric round cairn located in Wales and protected as a scheduled monument by Cadw under reference ME055. Round cairns of this type date to the Bronze Age and served as burial monuments, constructed from stone heaps accumulated over central graves or cremation deposits. The cairn's construction would have drawn on readily available stone from the surrounding landscape.
The monument sits upon Lower Cambrian bedrock comprising sandstone and conglomerate in interbedded sequences, rocks formed during the Early Cambrian period over 500 million years ago. This geology would have provided the basic stone resources for cairn building, though builders selected material suited to their construction needs rather than excavating deep into bedrock. The Cambrian substrates across this region typically offer abundant surface and near-surface stone suitable for cairn construction.
As a scheduled monument under Cadw protection, Llecheiddior Round Cairns represents an important survival of Bronze Age funerary practice in the Welsh landscape. The site's preservation allows study of prehistoric burial customs and settlement patterns, whilst its position on Cambrian geology illustrates how prehistoric communities exploited their local environment for monumental construction.
Llecheiddior Round Cairns is a scheduled monument protected by Cadw under reference ME055. View the official record →
Llecheiddior Round Cairns is a prehistoric round cairn located in Wales and protected as a scheduled monument by Cadw under reference ME055.
Llecheiddior Round Cairns 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.
Llecheiddior Round 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 ME055.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Llys Bradwen Medieval Site (9 km), Arthog Standing Stones (9.1 km), Cyfannedd-Fach Homestead (9.4 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 13 strands of Llecheiddior Round Cairns'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.
Llecheiddior Round Cairns stands on Lower Cambrian Rocks (Undifferentiated), bedrock that formed in the Early Cambrian. The rock here is sandstone and conglomerate, interbedded.