Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Ffynnon Las Bronze Age Ritual Complex
Llanfihangel Cwmdu with Bwlch and Cathedine, Powys, Wales
A scheduled monument in Llanfihangel Cwmdu with Bwlch and Cathedine, Powys, recorded as Round Cairn (Prehistoric).
The record
- Designation
- Scheduled monument
- Site type
- Round Cairn
- Period
- Prehistoric
- Date of designation
- 16 July 2002
- Community
- Llanfihangel Cwmdu with Bwlch and Cathedine
- Unitary authority
- Powys
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates (centre of the scheduled area)
- 51.90091, -3.22444
- SAM number
- BR296
- Cadw record number
- 3893
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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)
- 1896 · 214 Talgarth (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 two burial cairns and a standing stone probably dating to the Bronze Age (c. 2300 - 800 BC) and aligned north-west to south-east along the eastern slope of Cefn Moel above Ffynnon Las. The cairns are turf-covered and measure 8m in diameter x 1m high (Cairn II) and 7m in diameter x 0.5m high (Cairn III). The standing stone measures 0.9m high x 1.1m long x 0.4m wide.
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 in three parts, with a circle 10m in diameter, centred on cairn II, a circle 2m in diameter, centred on the standing stone and a circle 10m in diameter, centred on cairn III.
Nearby in the register
- Cefn Moel Round HousesHut Circle Settlementunder 1 mi
- Ffynnon Las Round Cairn IRound Cairnunder 1 mi
- Bwlch Round CairnRound Cairnunder 1 mi
- Cefn Moel Round BarrowsRound Cairnunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.