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Pen y Gurnos Round Barrow is a Bronze Age burial monument located in Ceredigion, Wales. The barrow forms part of the wider prehistoric funerary landscape of the region, dating to the Bronze Age period when such earthen mounds served as communal or elite burial sites. The monument survives as a round barrow, a characteristic burial form of the Bronze Age, constructed to mark and protect inhumations or cremations beneath an earthen mound. The site is protected as a scheduled ancient monument under the Cadw designation system, reflecting its archaeological importance for understanding prehistoric burial practices and settlement patterns in medieval Wales and earlier periods.
Pen y Gurnos Round Barrow is a scheduled monument protected by Cadw under reference CD253. View the official record →
Pen y Gurnos Round Barrow is a Bronze Age burial monument located in Ceredigion, Wales. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Cadw under reference CD253.
Pen y Gurnos Round Barrow dates from the prehistoric period, and is classified as a round barrow. It is one of over 32,000 scheduled monuments protected across the UK.
Pen y Gurnos Round Barrow 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 CD253.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Gelli Burial Chamber (5.5 km), Carn Wen round cairn (6.4 km), Nant-y-Mwyn Lead Mine Engine House, Rhandir-Mwyn (6.9 km).
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