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Latitude: 51.6569 / 51°39'25"N
Longitude: -3.4578 / 3°27'28"W
OS Eastings: 299254
OS Northings: 196357
OS Grid: SS992963
Mapcode National: GBR HK.6WGG
Mapcode Global: VH6D9.0MV4
Entry Name: Mynydd Ty'n-tyle cairns
Scheduled Date: 14 November 2003
Source: Cadw
Source ID: 4047
Cadw Legacy ID: GM574
Schedule Class: Religious, Ritual and Funerary
Category: Round cairn
Period: Prehistoric
County: Rhondda, Cynon, Taff (Rhondda Cynon Taf)
Community: Ferndale
Built-Up Area: Ferndale
Traditional County: Glamorgan
The monument comprises the remains of three burial cairns, probably dating to the Bronze Age (c.2300 BC - 800 BC). They are situated on the saddle below and to the north-east of Mynydd Ty'n-tyle, on the main ridge of Cefn y Rhondda. The cairns are described individually in turn from north to south. The northernmost cairn (Item A) measures 7m in diameter and up to 0.4m in height. The central cairn (Item B) is situated about 170m to the south-east of the first. It measures 13m in diameter and up to 0.6m in height. The southernmost cairn (Item C) is situated immediately to the south-west of the central cairn. It measures 5m in diameter and up to 0.4m in height.
The monument is of national importance as an important relic of a prehistoric funerary and ritual landscape. It retains significant archaeological potential, with a strong probability of the presence of both intact burial or ritual deposits and environmental and structural evidence, including traces of a buried prehistoric land surface underneath the cairns.
The scheduled areas comprise the remains described and areas around them within which related evidence may be expected to survive.
Source: Cadw
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