Carn-y-Wiwer (Ynyshir)

Nearest town:
Pontypridd (5km ESE)
OS reference:
ST02689415
OS sheet:
170
Latitude:
51° 38' 14.04 N
Longitude:
3° 24' 23.2 W
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Images

Image of Carn-y-Wiwer (Ynyshir) (Cairn(s)) by thesweetcheat

Showing the small pieces of embedded stone in the larger cairn (see Misc. post). Looking south on Porth, in the Rhondda Fach valley.

Image credit: A. Brookes (26.5.2014)
thesweetcheat
thesweetcheat Jul 14, 2014
Image of Carn-y-Wiwer (Ynyshir) (Cairn(s)) by thesweetcheat

Looking east. The dark hill on the right skyline is Cefn Eglwysian, with its own cairns and a speculative chambered tomb.

Image credit: A. Brookes (26.5.2014)
thesweetcheat
thesweetcheat Jul 14, 2014
Image of Carn-y-Wiwer (Ynyshir) (Cairn(s)) by thesweetcheat

The larger cairn, looking across the Rhondda valleys towards Mynydd Ton.

Image credit: A. Brookes (26.5.2014)
thesweetcheat
thesweetcheat Jul 14, 2014
Image of Carn-y-Wiwer (Ynyshir) (Cairn(s)) by thesweetcheat

Representative example of the small clearance cairns at the site.

Image credit: A. Brookes (26.5.2014)
thesweetcheat
thesweetcheat Jul 14, 2014

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Miscellaneous

Carn-y-Wiwer (Ynyshir)
Cairn(s)
thesweetcheat
thesweetcheat Jul 14, 2014

Cairnfield of small cairns, presumably clearance cairns in the main.

Coflein/RCAHMW suggests it may be post Medieval, but Glamorgan Gwent Archaeological Trust have assigned a Bronze Age date. The site is certainly very similar to other Bronze Age cairn-fields in South Wales.

There is one possible funerary cairn at ST0276794150, described by GGAT as:

“Cairn in Carn y Wiwer cairnfield. Roughly circular with flat top, much better marked than other cairns in the group. Edges grass-covered, but the top has been denuded of vegetation (probably through placing of black plastic on top) revealing a mass of small pieces of sandstone (0.1m) set in dark earth. Dimensions: 5.7m diameter, c0.3m high.”

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