What is recorded here
The National Monuments Record of Wales records Mynydd y Capel, Cairn XXIV 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 practices and megalithic traditions of early Welsh communities during the Bronze Age.
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Places near here
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Remains of Forest Chapel on Mynydd y CapelChurch, cross or graveyard · 540 yd
Forest Chapel, FoundationsChapel · 552 yd
Mynydd Y CapelMountain / peak · 757 yd
Slow down up Bells Hill, Merthyr ValeMountain or hill · 911 yd
Bells Hill, Merthyr ValeMountain or hill · 921 yd
Ynysowen Community Primary School and a wooded backdrop, AberfanHeritage place · 970 yd
Spelbrook Memorial WoodlandForest or wood · 1051 yd
Access through Aberfan cemeteryChurch, cross or graveyard · 1453 yd
Disused chapel, Aberfan CemeteryChurch, cross or graveyard · 1464 yd
Twyn BrynbychanMountain / peak · 1.4 mi