Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Darren ring cairn
Crickhowell, Powys, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Scheduled monument
- Site type
- Ring Cairn
- Period
- Prehistoric
- Date of designation
- 3 February 2006
- Community
- Crickhowell
- Unitary authority
- Powys
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates (centre of the scheduled area)
- 51.88516, -3.14545
- SAM number
- BR302
- Cadw record number
- 4179
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 ring cairn, probably dating to the Bronze Age (c.2300 BC - 800 BC) and situated within open moorland on a S-facing spur of Pen Cerrig-calch. The well-preserved ring cairn is circular on plan and measures about 9.5m in diameter within a stony ring bank about 1.5m in thickness and 0.3m in height. The interior is level and largely stone free. The ring cairn is situated in a classic location, with wide views all around, particularly to the SE and except to the N where it is overlooked by higher ground.
The monument is of national importance for its potential to enhance our knowledge of prehistoric burial and ritual practices. The monument is well preserved and is an important relic of a prehistoric funerary and ritual landscape. It retains significant archaeological potential, with a strong probability of the presence of both intact burial or ritual deposits and environmental and structural evidence.
The scheduled area comprises the remains described and an area around them within which related evidence may be expected to survive. It is circular and measures 22m in diameter.
Nearby in the register
- Pen Cerrig-calch, cairn on S side ofRound Cairnunder 1 mi
- Pen Cerrig-calch, cairn on NW side ofRound Cairnunder 1 mi
- Cwm Gu Cottage including attached barnDomesticunder 1 mi
- Crug Hywel CampHillfortunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.