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Maen-Pebyll Burial Chamber is a prehistoric long cairn situated in Wales, protected as a scheduled ancient monument by Cadw under reference DE004. The monument sits upon Wenlock Rocks, a bedrock of Silurian age comprising interbedded sandstone and conglomerate, which would have provided ready stone for cairn construction. Long cairns of this type date to the Neolithic period and typically served as communal burial monuments, built by early agricultural communities across Britain and Wales.
The substantial stone mound that forms the visible cairn would have been constructed by gathering stones from the surrounding landscape, likely including material from the weathered Wenlock bedrock. Such monuments often contained internal stone chambers, accessed by a passage, where successive burials were deposited over many generations. The survival of Maen-Pebyll into the modern period, despite the landscape changes of intervening millennia, demonstrates the robustness of Neolithic stone construction.
Today the monument remains an important record of early Welsh prehistory and the burial practices of Neolithic communities. Its protection by Cadw ensures that this significant archaeological site is preserved for future study and understanding of Wales's earliest settled populations and their engagement with the landscape.
Maen-Pebyll Burial Chamber is a scheduled monument protected by Cadw under reference DE004. View the official record →
Maen-Pebyll Burial Chamber is a prehistoric long cairn situated in Wales, protected as a scheduled ancient monument by Cadw under reference DE004.
Maen-Pebyll Burial Chamber dates from the prehistoric period, and is classified as a long cairn. It is one of over 32,000 scheduled monuments protected across the UK.
Maen-Pebyll Burial Chamber 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 DE004.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Pont Rhyd-Llanfair (4.5 km), Maes-Gwyn Castle Mound (4.7 km), Y Foelas Castle Mound (5.1 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 13 strands of Maen-Pebyll Burial Chamber'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.
Maen-Pebyll Burial Chamber stands on Wenlock Rocks (Undifferentiated), bedrock that formed in the Wenlock. The rock here is sandstone and conglomerate, interbedded.