Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Banc Paderau Round Cairn
Treflys, Powys, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Scheduled monument
- Site type
- Round Cairn
- Period
- Prehistoric
- Community
- Treflys
- Unitary authority
- Powys
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates (centre of the scheduled area)
- 52.15915, -3.64478
- SAM number
- BR149
- Cadw record number
- 1783
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 burial cairn, probably dating to the Bronze Age (c. 2300 - 800 BC). It measures 15.5m in diameter and 1.2m high and is circular in plan and covered by turf and heather. An old track runs along the S side of the cairn.
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
- Old School HouseEducation1 mi
- Milestone at TrallwmCommunications1 mi
- Pen Twr ring cairnRing Cairn1 mi
- Milestone S of Pantycelyn ChapelCommunications1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.