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<< Text Pages >> Mynydd Y Capel Cairn Cemetry - Cairn in Wales in Mid Glamorgan

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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Mynydd Y Capel Cairn Cemetry Alternative Name: Cairn XXX
Country: Wales
NOTE: This site is 6.4 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:
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
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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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