Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Round Cairn SE of Maen Llia
Maescar, Powys, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Scheduled monument
- Site type
- Round Cairn
- Period
- Prehistoric
- Date of designation
- 19 April 1999
- Community
- Maescar
- Unitary authority
- Powys
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates (centre of the scheduled area)
- 51.85891, -3.56027
- SAM number
- BR261
- Cadw record number
- 1578
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 cairn, which probably dates to the Bronze Age (c. 2300 - 800 BC) and is set on a prominent local rise in the ground overlooking the Afon Llia. The cairn has an outer ring of stones, now mostly grassed over.
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. It is a circle of 20m diameter centered on the cairn.
Nearby in the register
- Rectangular PlatformRitual platformunder 1 mi
- Maen Llia StoneStanding Stoneunder 1 mi
- Round Barrow SW of Maen LliaRing Cairnunder 1 mi
- Enclosures East of Afon LliaEnclosure - Agriculturalunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.