Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Bwlch Round Cairn
Llanfihangel Cwmdu with Bwlch and Cathedine, Powys, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Scheduled monument
- Site type
- Round Cairn
- Period
- Prehistoric
- Community
- Llanfihangel Cwmdu with Bwlch and Cathedine
- Unitary authority
- Powys
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates (centre of the scheduled area)
- 51.89830, -3.23010
- SAM number
- BR124
- Cadw record number
- 1765
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 1636 "Cornubia : Devonia, Somersetus, Dorcestria, Wiltonia, Glocestria ..." (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 burial cairn, probably dating to the Bronze Age (c. 2300 - 800 BC). The cairn is circular in plan, 19m in diameter and 1.2m high and is surmounted by a modern cairn 1.5m high, positioned on the NW side. The cairn has a deep depression in the centre, 3.5m wide and 0.9m deep, which is probably the result of past investigations.
The monument is of national importance for its potential to enhance our knowledge of prehistoric burial and ritual practices. The monument is an important relic of a prehistoric funerary and ritual landscape and retains significant archaeological potential, with a strong probability of the presence of both intact burial or ritual 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
- Cefn Moel Round HousesHut Circle Settlementunder 1 mi
- Ffynnon Las Bronze Age Ritual ComplexRound Cairnunder 1 mi
- Bwlch EnclosureEnclosure - Defensiveunder 1 mi
- Ffynnon Las Round Cairn IRound Cairnunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.