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Morfa-Bychan Burial Chambers, Cairns, House Sites & Fields is a Prehistoric Religious, Ritual and Funerary monument complex located in Carmarthenshire, Wales, designated as a Scheduled Ancient Monument under reference CM053. The site comprises chambered tombs and associated cairns dating to the Neolithic period, representing a significant funerary and ceremonial landscape of early farming communities in Wales. The monument includes the structural remains of burial chambers constructed from stone, alongside cairn mounds and evidence of domestic settlement and field systems contemporary with the tombs. The complex demonstrates the ritual and domestic organisation of Neolithic communities in south-west Wales and their use of the landscape for both burial practices and agricultural activity.
Morfa-Bychan Burial Chambers, Cairns, House Sites & Fields is a scheduled monument protected by Cadw under reference CM053. View the official record →
Morfa-Bychan Burial Chambers, Cairns, House Sites & Fields is a Prehistoric Religious, Ritual and Funerary monument complex located in Carmarthenshire, Wales, designated as a Scheduled Ancient Monument under reference CM053. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Cadw under reference CM053.
Morfa-Bychan Burial Chambers, Cairns, House Sites & Fields dates from the prehistoric period, and is classified as a chambered tomb. It is one of over 32,000 scheduled monuments protected across the UK.
Morfa-Bychan Burial Chambers, Cairns, House Sites & Fields 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 CM053.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Napps Camp (0.6 km), Garness Farm, round barrow 400m to SW of (0.9 km), Castle-Lloyd Camp (2.6 km).
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