The ring cairn at Brenig 44 is a circular bank, measuring c.18m overall diameter, 5.0-6.0m across and up to 1.0m high, and set upon a natural flat-topped promontory. An excavation in 1973, showed that the original structure was a stone ring-bank measuring 21.5m in diameter and 2.0m wide, contained by walls, 0.5m high. Without this and concentric to it, was a ring of 20 postholes, c.25m in diameter; the current bank was set over these features; a number of pits and other features associated with charcoal deposition were noted, several covered by a subrectangular secondary cairn, measuring 3.6m by 2.0m and set against and over the NW internal wall of the original ring. Four cremation deposits, two in-urned were recorded: eleven radio-carbon dates indicated activity between 2179-1880BC & 1318-1072BC.
(source: Lynch 1993 (Exc. Brenig Valley), 117-134, 217-9)
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2. The original ring cairn structure is now visible as part of the archaeological tour. Wooden posts having been placed in the position of the 20 postholes excavated.
