Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Waun y Gwair Cairn
Llangynidr, Powys, Wales
A scheduled monument in Llangynidr, Powys, recorded as Round Cairn (Prehistoric).
The record
- Designation
- Scheduled monument
- Site type
- Round Cairn
- Period
- Prehistoric
- Date of designation
- 5 March 2001
- Community
- Llangynidr
- Unitary authority
- Powys
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates (centre of the scheduled area)
- 51.80148, -3.34012
- SAM number
- BR278
- Cadw record number
- 1671
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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)
- 1856 · 42. Brecon. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1895 · Sheet 11. Ordnance Survey of England and Wales. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1898 · 231 Merthyr Tydfil (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 14. (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 a burial cairn, probably dating to the Bronze Age (c. 2300 - 800 BC) which is intervisible with other cairns to the north. The cairn measures 8m in diameter and stands to a height of 1m and although a central hollow suggests some past disturbance most of the cairn is intact.
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. It is a circle with a diameter of 18m, centred on the cairn.
Nearby in the register
- Nant Morlais HafodEnclosureunder 1 mi
- Ponsticill Inscribed StoneInscribed Stoneunder 1 mi
- Pontsticill platform cairnPlatform Cairnunder 1 mi
- Buarth y Caerau CairnRound Cairnunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.