Ring Cairns by Brenig
The Bronze Age Ring Cairns of Brenig are located on the approximately 4 km long "Brenig Archeology Trail", east of the water reservoir "Llyn Brenig" in "Pentre-llyn-cymmer" near Cerrigydrudion in Denbighshire in Wales . Before it was flooded, around 50 prehistoric monuments were examined and some were relocated.
The Ring Cairn
About 180 m south of the starting point of the archaeological hiking trail, on the right, close to the water, is the large, offset Bronze Age Ring Cairn (Brenig 44) from 2000 to 1500 BC. Chr., Consisting of a stone ring surrounded by a Timber Circle of more than a dozen short thick posts. Excavations in the early 1970s showed that the post ring lies outside a closed stone circle of boulders that, like Boncyn Arian Ringcairn to the north, surrounds a central area. Similar Timber circles are also located in Delamere and Church Lawton in Cheshire . It was originally designed as a ceremonial place, later a cremation was placed in the middle of the ring and two more on the side of the ring.
The platform cairn
The "Platform cairn" (Brenig 51) (dating from 1950 to 1650 BC), which is about 1.5 km away from the lake, was originally a ring cairn with an empty center, the inner edge of which is marked by 26 small stones. with a slightly larger one in the middle. The inner circle and the surrounding area were later filled with small stones on the inside and larger stones on the outside and form a flat, round, approximately 7 m wide ring platform around the stone circle. The burials of an adult and a child were found in the south below. Finally, in the east, a small semicircular cairn was erected on the edge, which covers an urn without burial in a small pit.
Brenig Lake Barrow is located on an island in the lake.
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Coordinates: 53 ° 6 ′ 7.9 ″ N , 3 ° 31 ′ 12 ″ W.