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Pant-y-Ffa Round Cairn is a prehistoric round cairn located in Wales and protected as a scheduled ancient monument by Cadw. The monument sits upon bedrock of the South Wales Upper Coal Measures Formation, a geological sequence laid down during the Westphalian period and comprising mudstone, siltstone, sandstone, coal, ironstone and ferricrete. This variable substrate would have presented Bronze Age builders with a landscape of mixed stone resources suitable for cairn construction.
Round cairns of this type typically served as burial monuments during the Bronze Age, though excavation records and artefactual evidence for this particular site are not currently documented. The presence of ironstone and ferricrete within the underlying geology may have influenced both the local stone types available for the cairn's construction and the character of the surrounding upland environment in which it was built.
The monument remains an important record of prehistoric settlement and funerary practice in South Wales. Its formal protection reflects its archaeological significance as evidence of Bronze Age ceremonial and burial activity within the coal measures landscape of Wales.
Pant-y-Ffa Round Cairn is a scheduled monument protected by Cadw under reference GM201. View the official record →
Pant-y-Ffa Round Cairn is a prehistoric round cairn located in Wales and protected as a scheduled ancient monument by Cadw.
Pant-y-Ffa Round Cairn 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.
Pant-y-Ffa Round Cairn 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 GM201.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Morris Castle (7.5 km), Cockett standing stone (7.9 km), Landore New Quay (8.1 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 13 strands of Pant-y-Ffa Round Cairn'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.
Pant-y-Ffa Round Cairn stands on South Wales Upper Coal Measures Formation, bedrock that formed in the Westphalian. The rock here is mudstone, siltstone, sandstone, coal, ironstone and ferricrete.