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Three Round Cairns on the Southern Side of Mynydd-y-Glog is a Bronze Age funerary monument located in Glamorgan, Wales. The site comprises three round cairns, stone burial mounds that served ritual and funerary purposes for prehistoric communities. These cairns date to the Bronze Age period and represent the funeral practices and territorial expression of the societies that constructed them. The monument's survival on the high ground of Mynydd-y-Glog provides evidence of Bronze Age settlement patterns and the use of upland areas for ritual deposits and burial practices.
Three Round Cairns on the Southern Side of Mynydd-y-Glog is a scheduled monument protected by Cadw under reference GM525. View the official record →
Three Round Cairns on the Southern Side of Mynydd-y-Glog is a Bronze Age funerary monument located in Glamorgan, Wales. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Cadw under reference GM525.
Three Round Cairns on the Southern Side of Mynydd-y-Glog dates from the prehistoric period, and is classified as a round cairn. It is one of over 32,000 scheduled monuments protected across Britain.
Three Round Cairns on the Southern Side of Mynydd-y-Glog 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 GM525.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Gadlys Ironworks (Remains of Blast Furnace) (5.5 km), Rhondda Fach Cairn (6.9 km), Darren Fawr Round Cairns (7.8 km).
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