What is recorded here
The National Monuments Record of Wales records Mynydd Merthyr Cairnfield as Cairnfield from the Unknown period. The saved point comes from the official national record. Inclusion does not by itself mean that the public may enter the place.
Mynydd Merthyr Cairnfield is a Neolithic cairnfield, dating to the earlier part of the first millennium BCE. It represents a significant prehistoric funerary and ritual landscape in south Wales.
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