What is recorded here
The National Monuments Record of Wales records Mynydd y Capel, Cairn XXIII 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 Bronze Age communities in Wales.
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Places near here
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Remains of Forest Chapel on Mynydd y CapelChurch, cross or graveyard · 550 yd_-_geograph.org.uk_-_7724836.jpg?width=1280)
Forest Chapel, FoundationsChapel · 562 yd
Mynydd Y CapelMountain / peak · 765 yd
Slow down up Bells Hill, Merthyr ValeMountain or hill · 915 yd
Bells Hill, Merthyr ValeMountain or hill · 925 yd
Ynysowen Community Primary School and a wooded backdrop, AberfanHeritage place · 982 yd
Spelbrook Memorial WoodlandForest or wood · 1064 yd
Access through Aberfan cemeteryChurch, cross or graveyard · 1462 yd
Disused chapel, Aberfan CemeteryChurch, cross or graveyard · 1473 yd
Twyn BrynbychanMountain / peak · 1.4 mi