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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Mynydd Y Capel Cairn Cemetry Alternative Name: Cairn XXXCountry: Wales
NOTE: This site is 6.7 km away from the location you searched for.
County: Mid Glamorgan Type: Cairn
Nearest Town: Merthyr Tydfil Nearest Village: Merthyr Vale
Map Ref: SO0822200245
Latitude: 51.693426N Longitude: 3.329223W
Condition:
5 | Perfect |
4 | Almost Perfect |
3 | Reasonable but with some damage |
2 | Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site |
1 | Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks |
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-1 | Completely destroyed |
5 | Superb |
4 | Good |
3 | Ordinary |
2 | Not Good |
1 | Awful |
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5 | Can be driven to, probably with disabled access |
4 | Short walk on a footpath |
3 | Requiring a bit more of a walk |
2 | A long walk |
1 | In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find |
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5 | co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates |
4 | co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map |
3 | co-ordinates scaled from a bad map |
2 | co-ordinates of the nearest village |
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Cairn in Mid Glamorgan
This stone cairn is part of the cairnfield on Mynydd y Capel and lies within the scheduled area. It measures 6 metres by 5 metres and 0.60 metres high. When the area was surveyed as part of the Uplands Initiative by Trysor in 2012 vegetation cover was grass. This site is RC 14 on the RCAHMW plan of the "Cairn Cemetery" on Mynydd y Capel on page 112 of the Glamorgan Inventory Volume 1 Part 1, 1976. J.J. Hall, Trysor, 23 March 2013.
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