Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Nant yr Ychen round cairn
The Vale of Grwyney, Powys, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Scheduled monument
- Site type
- Round Cairn
- Period
- Prehistoric
- Date of designation
- 3 February 2006
- Community
- The Vale of Grwyney
- Unitary authority
- Powys
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates (centre of the scheduled area)
- 51.92275, -3.09548
- SAM number
- BR313
- Cadw record number
- 4189
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 burial cairn, probably dating to the Bronze Age (c.2300 BC - 800 BC) and situated in open moorland on the rounded summit of the ridge above the Nant yr Ychen and the Grwyne Fechan. The stone-built cairn is roughly circular on plan and measures about 8m in diameter and up to 0.5m in height. There is a deep central hollow, presumably the result of antiquarian investigation or robbing. The resulting spoil now forms the walker's cairn that overlies the SE side.
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 16m in diameter.
Nearby in the register
- The Old ChapelReligious, Ritual and Funerary1 mi
- The DarrenDomestic1 mi
- Barn, Byre and Stable at The DarrenAgriculture and Subsistence1 mi
- Former Flour and Grist Mill at The MillAgriculture and Subsistence1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.