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Soldiers' Graves Pillow Mounds is a group of medieval ridge and furrow earthworks located in Wales, designated under Cadw reference SAM MG250. These pillow mounds represent a form of intensive arable cultivation characteristic of the medieval period, created through the repeated ploughing and ridging of land to improve drainage and soil productivity. The earthworks survive as a series of parallel, elongated humped ridges typical of this agricultural technique, which would have been employed on marginal or wet ground to maximise crop yield during the medieval occupation of the landscape. The site reflects the agricultural practices and subsistence strategies of medieval Welsh communities engaged in arable farming.
Soldiers' Graves Pillow Mounds is a scheduled monument protected by Cadw under reference MG250. View the official record →
Soldiers' Graves Pillow Mounds is a group of medieval ridge and furrow earthworks located in Wales, designated under Cadw reference SAM MG250. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Cadw under reference MG250.
Soldiers' Graves Pillow Mounds dates from the medieval period, and is classified as a pillow mound. It is one of over 32,000 scheduled monuments protected across Britain.
Soldiers' Graves Pillow Mounds 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 MG250.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Cae'r-Mynach Round Cairn (2.3 km), Mynydd Dyfnant Stone Alignment (4.1 km), Allt Dolanog Hillfort (5.1 km).
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