Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Garn Wen Round Cairn
Trallong, Powys, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Scheduled monument
- Site type
- Round Cairn
- Period
- Prehistoric
- Community
- Trallong
- Unitary authority
- Powys
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates (centre of the scheduled area)
- 52.05503, -3.55599
- SAM number
- BR103
- Cadw record number
- 3365
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 5 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1608 "(13) Cambriae Typus." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Cadw's description
Summary description and reason for designation
The following provides a general description of the scheduled monument.
The monument comprises the remains of a cairn, which probably dates to the Bronze Age (c. 2300 - 800 BC). The cairn is circular in plan, 16-18m in diameter and 0.4m high. It comprises a low stony platform with upright slabs of a probable kerb defining the edge. The irregular platform comprises stones 2-3 layers thick in most places, although in some parts of the monument all of the stones have been removed. There are old shell craters within the cairn body and four other smaller ones nearby. The cairn lies within the Sennybridge training area.
The monument is of national importance for its potential to enhance our knowledge of prehistoric burial and ritual practices. The features are an important relic of a prehistoric funerary and ritual landscape and retain significant archaeological potential. There is a strong probability of the presence of both intact ritual and burial deposits, together with environmental and structural evidence. Cairns may be part of a larger cluster of monuments and their importance can further enhanced by their group value.
The scheduled area comprises the remains described and areas around them within which related evidence may be expected to survive.
Nearby in the register
- Round Barrows N & NE of Ffynnon Dafydd-BevanRound Barrow2 mi
- Twyn Cerrig-Cadarn Round CairnRound Barrow2 mi
- Stone Circle and Round Cairn W of YnyshirStone Circle2 mi
- Tri Chrugiau Round BarrowsRound Barrow2 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.