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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Tarren Maerdy Cairn 1Country: Wales
NOTE: This site is 0.927 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:
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 |
0 | No data. |
-1 | Completely destroyed |
5 | Superb |
4 | Good |
3 | Ordinary |
2 | Not Good |
1 | Awful |
0 | No data. |
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 |
0 | No data. |
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 |
1 | co-ordinates of the nearest town |
0 | no data |
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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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