Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Blaen y Cwm Uchaf Cairn Cemetery
Llanfihangel Cwmdu with Bwlch and Cathedine, Powys, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Scheduled monument
- Site type
- Round Cairn
- Period
- Prehistoric
- Date of designation
- 23 July 2002
- Community
- Llanfihangel Cwmdu with Bwlch and Cathedine
- Unitary authority
- Powys
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates (centre of the scheduled area)
- 51.91742, -3.22343
- SAM number
- BR295
- Cadw record number
- 3890
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 three burial cairns, probably dating to the Bronze Age (c. 2300 - 800 BC), which are aligned north-south, running for 40m adjacent to and east of the footpath from Cefn Moel to Mynydd Llangors. A fourth, oval cairn, aligned north-west to south-east, lies some 35m to the north-east of the main group. The site covers an area some 40m by 40m.
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 square, measuring 40m x 40m.
Nearby in the register
- Cefn Moel Round Cairn IIIRound Cairnunder 1 mi
- Mynydd Llangorse, cairn on S end ofRound Cairnunder 1 mi
- Maes Clythan Wood cairnRound Cairnunder 1 mi
- Cefn Moel Round Cairn and Ritual PlatformRound Cairnunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.