Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Round Barrow SE of Llyn Nant-Llys
Maescar, Powys, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Scheduled monument
- Site type
- Round Barrow
- Period
- Prehistoric
- Date of designation
- 5 October 1994
- Community
- Maescar
- Unitary authority
- Powys
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates (centre of the scheduled area)
- 51.99004, -3.62006
- SAM number
- BR219
- Cadw record number
- 1823
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 earthen built round barrow, which probably date to the Bronze Age (c. 2300 - 800 BC). The barrow is circular in shape on plan and has a rounded profile. It is 12m in diameter and 40cm high. The barrow is conspicuous because of its prominence in low-lying and marshy unenclosed moorland.
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. Barrows 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
- Church of Saint TeiloReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Bilidu Calvinistic Methodist Chapel including forecourt wall and railings.Religious, Ritual and Funerary1 mi
- Brewhouse at AberllechDomestic1 mi
- Outbuildings to NW of AberllechAgriculture and Subsistence1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.