Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Pant Sychbant Round Cairn
Hirwaun, Rhondda Cynon Taff, Wales
A scheduled monument in Hirwaun, Rhondda Cynon Taff, recorded as Round Cairn (Prehistoric).
The record
- Designation
- Scheduled monument
- Site type
- Round Cairn
- Period
- Prehistoric
- Date of designation
- 25 April 2002
- Welsh name
- Carnedd Gron Pant Sychbant
- Community
- Hirwaun
- Unitary authority
- Rhondda Cynon Taff
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates (centre of the scheduled area)
- 51.77814, -3.45740
- SAM number
- BR166
- Cadw record number
- 780
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5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1636 map "Cornubia : Devonia, Somersetus, Dorcestria, Wiltonia, Glocestria ..." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1636 · Cornubia : Devonia, Somersetus, Dorcestria, Wiltonia, Glocestria ... (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1830 · V.3:11-15:XV. Britisches Reich. A. Kon: England. b. Frstenthum Wales: Shire: 37-40 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1856 · 42. Brecon. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1898 · 231 Merthyr Tydfil (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1898 · 231 Merthyr Tydfil (Outline) (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 burial cairn, probably dating to the Bronze Age (c.2300 - 800 BC). It measures approximately 12m in diameter and is 1.5m high. The cairn is located on the lower, southern slopes of Cwm Cadlan.
The monument is of national importance for its potential to enhance our knowledge of prehistoric burial and ritual practices. It 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. The cairn shares group value with an extensive and varied cluster of Prehistoric round cairns and settlement remains scattered along the same valley and across adjacent ridges.
The scheduled area comprises the remains described and areas around them within which related evidence may be expected to survive. Originally designated as Pant Sychbant Round Cairn and Earthworks, there is now insufficient evidence for the earthworks to ENE and the scheduled area has been revised to exclude them.
Nearby in the register
- Pant Sychbant Medieval HouseRectangular hutunder 1 mi
- Two Round Cairns at OnllwynRound Cairnunder 1 mi
- Cefn Sychbant, round cairns to the S ofRound Cairnunder 1 mi
- Onllwyn Round CairnRound Cairnunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.