What is recorded here
The National Monuments Record of Wales records Mynydd y Capel, Cairn XVII as Cairn from the Bronze Age period. The saved point comes from the official national record. Inclusion does not by itself mean that the public may enter the place.
Bronze Age cairn; likely a long cairn or passage tomb. It represents the funerary and ritual practices of early farming communities in Wales.
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Places near here
Standing stoneStanding or carved stone · 385 yd
Remains of Forest Chapel on Mynydd y CapelChurch, cross or graveyard · 404 yd
Cefn Merthyr Standing StoneStanding Stone · 406 yd_-_geograph.org.uk_-_7724836.jpg?width=1280)
Forest Chapel, FoundationsChapel · 421 yd
Mynydd Y CapelMountain / peak · 635 yd
Ynysowen Community Primary School and a wooded backdrop, AberfanHeritage place · 793 yd
Spelbrook Memorial WoodlandForest or wood · 876 yd
Bells Hill, Merthyr ValeMountain or hill · 898 yd
Slow down up Bells Hill, Merthyr ValeMountain or hill · 900 yd
Access through Aberfan cemeteryChurch, cross or graveyard · 1332 yd
Disused chapel, Aberfan CemeteryChurch, cross or graveyard · 1341 yd
Twyn BrynbychanMountain / peak · 1.4 mi