Maindy Cairn

Also known as:
Maendy cairn
Nearest town:
Aberdare (9km NNE)
OS reference:
SS95709548
OS sheet:
170
Latitude:
51° 38' 52.47 N
Longitude:
3° 30' 27.63 W
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Images

Image of Maindy Cairn (Cairn) by thesweetcheat

The little cairn is much clearer than on my previous visit, especially as the bracken growing from the robbed centre has gone. Looking north across Rhondda Fawr to Mynydd Tynewydd.

Image credit: A. Brookes (8.6.2013)
thesweetcheat
thesweetcheat Aug 4, 2013
Image of Maindy Cairn (Cairn) by thesweetcheat

A few bits of rubble construction poke through the grass, but there’s not a lot to see.

Image credit: A. Brookes (17.7.2010)
thesweetcheat
thesweetcheat Aug 10, 2010

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Maindy Cairn

C
CARL Sep 3, 2012

Visited 22.8.12

To be honest I don’t know if I found this Cairn?
There are several patches of stones hidden amongst the ferns and they all looked pretty much the same.
Was one of these the Cairn? – I honestly don’t know.

Perhaps a winter visit would be best?

On the plus side there are decent views down the valley to be had.

Maindy Cairn

thesweetcheat
thesweetcheat Sep 21, 2010

In the middle of the open interior, positioned outside and to the southwest of the inner enclosure, are the remains of a badly damaged cairn. A low mound with a few protruding stones can be discerned, around a central pit resulting from excavation. A bronze dagger and some flints were found when the cairn was originally excavated, but there’s little to see now.

Miscellaneous

Maindy Cairn
Cairn(s)
thesweetcheat
thesweetcheat Aug 9, 2010

Cairn that yielded a bronze dagger and urn sherds, Coflein description:

An ill-defined oval stony mound, c.9.1m E-W by 6.1m and 0.3m high, centrally disturbed.
The cairn is set within Maendy Camp (Nprn301331), and was investigated with it in 1901, when a bronze dagger, sherds of an urn and worked flints were recovered

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