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Pen Cerrig-calch is a round cairn located on the north-west side of a hill in Breconshire, Wales, dating to the Prehistoric period. The monument consists of a roughly circular mound of stones, characteristic of Bronze Age funerary cairns constructed across the upland regions of South Wales during the second millennium BCE. The site served ritual and funerary purposes, likely functioning as a burial monument for local communities during prehistoric times. The cairn is recorded in the Cadw schedule of ancient monuments as SAM BR304, reflecting its archaeological and cultural significance within the landscape of Breconshire.
Pen Cerrig-calch, cairn on NW side of is a scheduled monument protected by Cadw under reference BR304. View the official record →
Pen Cerrig-calch is a round cairn located on the north-west side of a hill in Breconshire, Wales, dating to the Prehistoric period. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Cadw under reference BR304.
Pen Cerrig-calch, cairn on NW side of 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.
Pen Cerrig-calch, cairn on NW side of 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 BR304.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Defended Enclosure 350m NNW of Ty-Uchaf (7.1 km), Mynydd Llangattock round cairn (7.3 km), Waun Cyrn round cairn (7.9 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 13 strands of Pen Cerrig-calch, cairn on NW side of'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.
Pen Cerrig-calch, cairn on NW side of stands on Millstone Grit Group [See Also Migr], bedrock that formed in the Namurian. The rock here is mudstone, siltstone and sandstone.