Ancient Monuments

History on the Ground

This site is entirely user-supported. See how you can help.

Coed Cae Round Cairns

A Scheduled Monument in Bedlinog, Merthyr Tydfil (Merthyr Tudful)

We don't have any photos of this monument yet. Why don't you be the first to send us one?

Upload Photo »

Approximate Location Map
Large Map »

If Google Street View is available, the image is from the best available vantage point looking, if possible, towards the location of the monument. Where it is not available, the satellite view is shown instead.

Coordinates

Latitude: 51.6889 / 51°41'20"N

Longitude: -3.313 / 3°18'46"W

OS Eastings: 309330

OS Northings: 199723

OS Grid: ST093997

Mapcode National: GBR HR.4WXK

Mapcode Global: VH6D5.JTC4

Entry Name: Coed Cae Round Cairns

Scheduled Date:

Source: Cadw

Source ID: 2269

Cadw Legacy ID: GM271

Schedule Class: Religious, Ritual and Funerary

Category: Round cairn

Period: Prehistoric

County: Merthyr Tydfil (Merthyr Tudful)

Community: Bedlinog

Traditional County: Glamorgan

Description

The monument comprises the remains eight burial cairns, probably dating to the Bronze Age (c. 2300 - 800 BC).

Cairn A - A ring cairn measuring approximately 11m in diameter with a bank averaging 1.5m wide by 0.4m high. On the east side is one leaning inner kerbstone 1m wide and 0.5m high together with three smaller boulder-like stones possibly cleared from the field.

Cairn B - A round cairn approximately 8m in diameter formed of a low bank 1.5m wide and 0.3m high with a group of large stones at the centre.

Cairn C - A small oval shaped cairn covered in turf.

Cairn D - Round cairn, turf covered with low mound.

Cairn E - Round cairn, turf covered with low mound.

Cairn F - Round cairn composed of a few larger flat slabs of rock of the type that outcrop throughout the vicnity where the soil is thin.

Cairn G - Round cairn, turf covered with low mound.

Cairn H - A diminutive mound covered by turf situated close to the south east corner of the field.

The monument is of national importance for its potential to enhance our knowledge of prehistoric burial and ritual practices. The monument is an important relic of a prehistoric funerary and ritual landscape and retains significant archaeological potential, with a strong probability of the presence of both intact burial or ritual deposits, together with environmental and structural evidence. Cairns may be part of a larger cluster of monuments and their importance can further enhanced by their group value.

The scheduled area comprises the remains described and areas around them within which related evidence may be expected to survive.

Source: Cadw

Other nearby scheduled monuments

AncientMonuments.uk is an independent online resource and is not associated with any government department. All government data published here is used under licence. Please do not contact AncientMonuments.uk for any queries related to any individual ancient or schedued monument, planning permission related to scheduled monuments or the scheduling process itself.

AncientMonuments.uk is a Good Stuff website.