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Mynydd Lluest Fach is a ring cairn located in Wales, representing a significant prehistoric funerary monument of Bronze Age date. The site consists of a circular or sub-circular arrangement of stones characteristic of ring cairn construction, a monument type found across Wales and beyond during the later Bronze Age period. Ring cairns functioned as ritual and funerary structures, often serving communal burial purposes within their stone configurations. The monument's position within a barrow cemetery indicates a landscape used intensively for mortuary practices across an extended temporal span, reflecting the ceremonial and social importance attached to this particular location during prehistory.
Mynydd Lluest Fach barrow cemetery is a scheduled monument protected by Cadw under reference MG313. View the official record →
Mynydd Lluest Fach is a ring cairn located in Wales, representing a significant prehistoric funerary monument of Bronze Age date. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Cadw under reference MG313.
Mynydd Lluest Fach barrow cemetery dates from the prehistoric period, and is classified as a ring cairn. It is one of over 32,000 scheduled monuments protected across Britain.
Mynydd Lluest Fach barrow cemetery 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 MG313.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Ffridd Cwm y Ffynnon round barrow (3.7 km), Moel Eiddew platform cairn (4.5 km), Domen Fawr Castle Mound Tafolwern (5.5 km).
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