Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Mynydd Llangorse, cairn on S end of
Llangors, Powys, Wales
A scheduled monument in Llangors, Powys, recorded as Round Cairn (Prehistoric).
The record
- Designation
- Scheduled monument
- Site type
- Round Cairn
- Period
- Prehistoric
- Date of designation
- 4 February 2005
- Community
- Llangors
- Unitary authority
- Powys
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates (centre of the scheduled area)
- 51.92210, -3.22802
- SAM number
- BR309
- Cadw record number
- 4186
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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 of a burial cairn, probably dating to the Bronze Age (c.2300 BC - 800 BC) and situated in open moorland on the gentle S-facing slopes of Mynydd Llangorse. The stone-built cairn is roughly circular on plan and measures about 6.5m in diameter and up to 0.5m in height. The cairn is substantially intact, although the well-set upright slab visible within the centre of the cairn and the large horizontal slab lying immediately adjacent may represent the remains of a disturbed cist and its displaced capstone.
The monument is of national importance for its potential to enhance our knowledge of prehistoric burial and ritual practices. The well-preserved 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 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 18m in diameter.
Nearby in the register
- Blaen y Cwm Uchaf Cairn CemeteryRound Cairnunder 1 mi
- Cefn Moel Round Cairn IIIRound Cairnunder 1 mi
- Walled garden at TreholfordGardens, Parks and Urban Spacesunder 1 mi
- TreholfordDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.