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Wales

Upland rings, ring cairns and funerary monuments set among mountains, moorland and distant horizons.

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The landscape

Circles across Wales

Many Welsh sites occupy exposed ground and blur modern categories such as stone circle and ring cairn. Their surviving evidence often connects ceremony with burial, ancestry and movement through upland landscapes.

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Gwynedd

Early Bronze Age · Ring cairn

Bryn Cader Faner

A remote ring cairn whose slender outward-leaning stones form a dramatic crown on the moor.
Powys

Bronze Age · Stone circle, standing stone and alignments

Cerrig Duon

A low circle, the great Maen Mawr monolith and two delicate stone rows form one ritual complex above the River Tawe.
Pembrokeshire

Bronze Age · Stone circle with outlying stones

Gors Fawr

Sixteen low stones form an almost perfect ring on wet open heath beneath the Preseli Hills.
Denbighshire

Bronze Age · Ring cairn

Moel Ty Uchaf

A compact ring of stones on a broad platform overlooking the Dee valley and Berwyn mountains.
Conwy

Bronze Age · Stone circle and ring cairn

Penmaenmawr Druid’s Circle

A substantial upland ring within a dense prehistoric landscape above the north Wales coast.

Regions represented

Conwy1 placeDenbighshire1 placeGwynedd1 placePembrokeshire1 placePowys1 place