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Crug-yr-Afan

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NPRN301286
Map ReferenceSS99NW
Grid ReferenceSS9203095440
Unitary (Local) AuthorityRhondda Cynon Taff
Old CountyGlamorgan
CommunityTreorchy
Type Of SiteCAIRN
PeriodBronze Age
Description
A complex monument consisting of a cental clayey mound, 20.5m in diameter and 0.9m with, having a level summit, 13.5m in diameter, upon which rests a cairn, c.10m in diameter and 0.9m high, said to have been enclosed by upright stones, this is centrally disturbed with a small recent cairn set upon it. The whole is encircled by a ditch, c.28.4m in diameter.
Excavation, in 1902, revealed a cist cut into the subsoil, containing, burnt bone, a bronze model dagger and possible curated bone.
(source Os495card; SS99NW4)
RCAHMW AP945103/42
J.Wiles 17.01.03