Cairn, Hill top, Llanllwni, Carmarthenshire, Wales, UK
Posted by: Ddraig Ddu
N 52° 01.658 W 004° 09.735
30U E 420261 N 5764750
A heavily overgrown cairn that is best viewed by climbing the sides to see the pool like bowl in the center.
Waymark Code: WMCFK5
Location: South Wales, United Kingdom
Date Posted: 09/02/2011
Views: 9
This is an example of a cairn that has been heavily overgrown, but still retains it shape underneath. Viewing the location form above using a satellite mapping system shows a circular shape that looks very odd with the local area.
Cairns such as this in this area are all markers of important burials of one, or multiple people. This is likely made, as it is on a top of a mountain overlooking allot of the area and villages was a burial of an important warlord or landowner in pre-history or the Celtic era.
Cairn Location: Hill top overlooking Llanllwni
Cairn Purpose: Grave Memorial
Type if different from above list: hill and bowl
Types of rock: Granite, under grass layer
Cairn Condition:
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