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Image of Allt Cunedda (Round Barrow(s)) by thesweetcheat

Illustration of bronze age find from the barrows, shown on information board in Llansaint village.

Image credit: A. Brookes (6.7.2013)

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Allt Cunedda
Round Barrow(s)

Two barrows excavated in the 19th century, positioned on the summit of a hill overlooking the Gwendraeth estuary.

Coflein description:

Two barrows, at SN40530897 (Dat Prn1394) and SN40750900 (Dat Prn1393), each c.75’ in diameter and ploughed down to around 0.5m high.
Opened 1850 revealing possible mass cremation in the eastern barrow and an inhumation and separate cist in the western. Beaker fragments and a stone ‘axe hammer’ are reported from the barrows as a group.

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