Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Gwaun Ymryson Round Cairn
Erwood, Powys, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Scheduled monument
- Site type
- Cairn
- Period
- Prehistoric
- Date of designation
- 22 March 1994
- Community
- Erwood
- Unitary authority
- Powys
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates (centre of the scheduled area)
- 52.06033, -3.41307
- SAM number
- BR205
- Cadw record number
- 1814
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 two round cairns, which probably date to the Bronze Age (c. 2300 - 800 BC) and are situated to the east of a long ridge which runs north to south 411m above sea level on enclosed moorland. The southern cairn has a diameter of 9.5m on its east west axis and 8.7m on its north south axis and stands up to 0.6m in height. The second cairn is approximately 120m to the north of the first and has a diameter of 4m but of negligible height, though noticeably stony in composition.
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. 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
- Twyn y Post CairnsPlatform Cairnunder 1 mi
- Cefn Clawdd CairnCairnunder 1 mi
- Cornelau Uchaf EnclosureEnclosureunder 1 mi
- Cefn Clawdd Cairn (East)Round Cairnunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.