Carn Bugail
Carn Bugail or Carn y Bugail is a round cairn with a diameter of 15.5 to 16.4 m that adorns the top of the 475 m high mountain Cefn Gelligaer, near Merthyr Tydfil in Mid Glamorgan in Wales . A damaged stone box is in the middle of the cairn.
description
The almost round stone mound is bordered by a curb ring made of larger horizontal slabs. On the top there are some slanted slabs, where there is a stone box with probably originally vertical slabs. Only a smaller one, in the west, is still in situ . Only one of the two side panels of the box has been preserved, and the oval capstone, about two meters long, has been moved south. Carn Bugail was opened in the 18th century and some urns and burned bones were found.
John Walter Lukis (1816–1894) recorded three parallel stone boxes in 1875, each about 3.0 × 0.6 m. Two were divided by transverse plates, but there is no evidence of this.
There is a smaller cairn to the north of Carn Bugail and more Bronze Age round cairns to the north and south.
On the east side of the Cefn Gelligaer stands the approximately 2.5 m high, strongly inclined menhir Gelligaer .
See also
literature
- Vicki Cummings, Alasdair Whittle: Places of special virtue. Megaliths in the Neolithic landscapes of Wales. Oxbow, Oxford 2004, ISBN 1-84217-108-9 .
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Coordinates: 51 ° 43 ′ 24.5 " N , 3 ° 18 ′ 13.4" W.