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<< Text Pages >> Tarren Maerdy Cairn 1 - Cairn in Wales in Mid Glamorgan

Submitted by RayBray on Thursday, 12 August 2021  Page Views: 438

Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Tarren Maerdy Cairn 1
Country: Wales
NOTE: This site is 5.578 km away from the location you searched for.

County: Mid Glamorgan Type: Cairn
Nearest Town: Maerdy
Map Ref: SS97959720
Latitude: 51.664281N  Longitude: 3.476894W
Condition:
5Perfect
4Almost Perfect
3Reasonable but with some damage
2Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
0No data.
-1Completely destroyed
2 Ambience:
5Superb
4Good
3Ordinary
2Not Good
1Awful
0No data.
4 Access:
5Can be driven to, probably with disabled access
4Short walk on a footpath
3Requiring a bit more of a walk
2A long walk
1In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find
0No data.
3 Accuracy:
5co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates
4co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map
3co-ordinates scaled from a bad map
2co-ordinates of the nearest village
1co-ordinates of the nearest town
0no data
5

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Cairn in Mid Glamorgan

The walk up Mynydd Maerdy (Maerdy Mountain) took us about an hour from Maerdy, with wonderful views of the Rhondda Fach valley. The site is marked as a cairn on OS Maps. Although only a few metres off a path, it is barely visible in the long grass, as a slight mound. Upon closer inspection you are treated to the sight of it’s stone chamber, with 3 stone slab walls still intact!


Coflein.gov.uk describes the site as:

“ A round cairn approximately 9m diameter and 0.7m high. In the centre is a cist defined on three sides by pitched slabs, with smaller packing stones behind, 1.25 x 0.5m and 0.7m deep. The cairn is set back from the brow of the hill, and therefore there is no view to the valley below, only the hill opposite.

R Hayman, Hayman and Horton, 21 October 2009”.
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Nearby Images from Geograph Britain and Ireland:
SS9797 : Tarren Maerdy - Cairn I by Adrian Dust
by Adrian Dust
©2017(licence)
SS9797 : Cefn y Rhondda by Alan Richards
by Alan Richards
©2016(licence)
SS9897 : Tarren y Maerdy by Alan Richards
by Alan Richards
©2016(licence)
SS9897 : Ferndale Cemetery by Jaggery
by Jaggery
©2011(licence)
SS9897 : Ordnance Survey Cut Mark by Adrian Dust
by Adrian Dust
©2023(licence)

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