Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Twyn Cerrig-Cadarn Round Cairn
Trallong, Powys, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Scheduled monument
- Site type
- Round Barrow
- Period
- Prehistoric
- Community
- Trallong
- Unitary authority
- Powys
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates (centre of the scheduled area)
- 52.03546, -3.53511
- SAM number
- BR105
- Cadw record number
- 1750
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 Ancient Monument.
The monument comprises the remains of a earthen built round barrow, which probably dates to the Bronze Age (c. 2300 - 800 BC). The monument is circular in plan and measures 28m in diameter and 2m high and has a modern military boundary marker set into the top. It lies in an area of grassland and is turf covered and largely undisturbed.
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. Barrows 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
- Y Crug Round Barrow SSW of Aber-CribanRound Barrowunder 1 mi
- Tir-cyd Deserted Rural SettlementDeserted Rural Settlement1 mi
- Cefn Merthyr Cynog CairnRound Cairn2 mi
- Garn Wen Round CairnRound Cairn2 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.