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Y Garn is a round cairn of Prehistoric date located near Eisteddfa-Gurig in Ceredigion, Wales. The monument comprises a roughly circular stone cairn constructed from accumulated stones, typical of funerary and ritual monuments of the Bronze Age period. Such cairns served as burial monuments and potentially functioned within broader ceremonial landscapes, reflecting the spiritual and commemorative practices of prehistoric Welsh communities. The site remains an important archaeological record of funerary traditions and ritual activity in the upland regions of mid Wales.
Y Garn, 2400m NNW of Eisteddfa-Gurig is a scheduled monument protected by Cadw under reference CD034. View the official record →
Y Garn is a round cairn of Prehistoric date located near Eisteddfa-Gurig in Ceredigion, Wales. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Cadw under reference CD034.
Y Garn, 2400m NNW of Eisteddfa-Gurig 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.
Y Garn, 2400m NNW of Eisteddfa-Gurig 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 CD034.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Castell Lead Mine (3.9 km), Nant yr Helygen Deserted Rural Settlement (4.7 km), Esgair Naint Deserted Rural Settlement (5 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 13 strands of Y Garn, 2400m NNW of Eisteddfa-Gurig'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.
Y Garn, 2400m NNW of Eisteddfa-Gurig stands on Ashgill Rocks (Undifferentiated), bedrock that formed in the Ashgill. The rock here is mudstone, siltstone and sandstone.