What is recorded here
The National Monuments Record of Wales records Mynydd y Capel, Cairn XXXVI 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. Its significance lies in contributing to the understanding of prehistoric burial and ritual practices in upland Wales.
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Places near here
Remains of Forest Chapel on Mynydd y CapelChurch, cross or graveyard · 393 yd_-_geograph.org.uk_-_7724836.jpg?width=1280)
Forest Chapel, FoundationsChapel · 413 yd
Standing stoneStanding or carved stone · 485 yd
Cefn Merthyr Standing StoneStanding Stone · 520 yd
Mynydd Y CapelMountain / peak · 627 yd
Ynysowen Community Primary School and a wooded backdrop, AberfanHeritage place · 698 yd
Spelbrook Memorial WoodlandForest or wood · 786 yd
Bells Hill, Merthyr ValeMountain or hill · 844 yd
Slow down up Bells Hill, Merthyr ValeMountain or hill · 853 yd
Access through Aberfan cemeteryChurch, cross or graveyard · 1221 yd
Top of the ramp in the memorial gardenHeritage place · 1223 yd
Twyn BrynbychanMountain / peak · 1.3 mi