Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Cefn Moel Round Barrows
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)
- 51.90551, -3.22806
- SAM number
- BR125
- Cadw record number
- 1766
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 two adjoining burial cairns, probably dating to the Bronze Age (c. 2300 - 800 BC). Both cairns are circular in plan, the larger measures 15m in diameter and 2m high, and the smaller 9m in diameter and 0.9m high. There is a slight hollow on the SW side of the larger cairn, and some stones protrude through the turf.
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
- Ffynnon Las Round Cairn IRound Cairnunder 1 mi
- Ffynnon Las Bronze Age Ritual ComplexRound Cairnunder 1 mi
- Cefn Moel Round Cairn and Ritual PlatformRound Cairnunder 1 mi
- Cefn Moel Round HousesHut Circle Settlementunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.