What is recorded here
The National Monuments Record of Wales records Mynydd y Capel, Cairn XX 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; a type of megalithic tomb used for burial and ritual purposes. Its significance lies in contributing to the understanding of prehistoric funerary practices and settlement patterns in Wales.
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Places near here
Remains of Forest Chapel on Mynydd y CapelChurch, cross or graveyard · 151 yd_-_geograph.org.uk_-_7724836.jpg?width=1280)
Forest Chapel, FoundationsChapel · 173 yd
Mynydd Y CapelMountain / peak · 365 yd
Ynysowen Community Primary School and a wooded backdrop, AberfanHeritage place · 497 yd
Spelbrook Memorial WoodlandForest or wood · 568 yd
Cefn Merthyr Standing StoneStanding Stone · 704 yd
Standing stoneStanding or carved stone · 707 yd
Bells Hill, Merthyr ValeMountain or hill · 1079 yd
Zebra crossing, Bells Hill, Merthyr ValeMountain or hill · 1090 yd
Top of the ramp in the memorial gardenHeritage place · 1199 yd
Aberfan Disaster Memorial GardenMemorial · 1210 yd
Anemometer tower on Mynydd Gilfach Yr EncilCastle, fort or tower · 1.4 mi