Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Disgwylfa 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)
- 51.90451, -3.07756
- SAM number
- BR314
- Cadw record number
- 4190
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 E side of the rounded summit of Disgwylfa. The stone-built cairn is roughly circular on plan and measures about 9.5m in diameter and up to 0.5m in height on its N side. Much of the cairn material has been cleared into a modern cairn built on the S side; however, the majority of the base of the cairn remains intact and undisturbed.
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 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 24m in diameter.
Nearby in the register
- Ffordd Las Fawr including attached byre and cattle ramp at downhill endDomesticunder 1 mi
- TyrywenDomesticunder 1 mi
- Llwyn y Brain Deserted Rural SettlementPlatform house1 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.