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Pen Tir Ring Cairn and Ritual Platform is a Neolithic or Early Bronze Age funerary monument located in Breconshire, Wales. The site comprises a ring cairn, a circular arrangement of stones enclosing a central area, associated with a ritual platform that would have served ceremonial purposes within the prehistoric religious landscape. The monument represents the tradition of monumental burial and ritual practice characteristic of the third and second millennia before the present. As a scheduled ancient monument under Cadw protection, it remains an important example of prehistoric funerary architecture in the Brecon Beacons region.
Pen Tir Ring Cairn and Ritual Platform is a scheduled monument protected by Cadw under reference BR291. View the official record →
Pen Tir Ring Cairn and Ritual Platform is a Neolithic or Early Bronze Age funerary monument located in Breconshire, Wales. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Cadw under reference BR291.
Pen Tir Ring Cairn and Ritual Platform dates from the prehistoric period, and is classified as a ring cairn. It is one of over 32,000 scheduled monuments protected across Britain.
Pen Tir Ring Cairn and Ritual Platform 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 BR291.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Twyn Disgwylfa platform cairn (8.1 km), Carreg Waun Llech Prehistoric Standing Stone (8.4 km), Garn Coch (9 km).
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