Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Bwlch Bach a'r Grib, round cairn to SW of
Talgarth, Powys, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Scheduled monument
- Site type
- Round Cairn
- Period
- Prehistoric
- Date of designation
- 3 February 2006
- Community
- Talgarth
- Unitary authority
- Powys
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates (centre of the scheduled area)
- 51.96906, -3.18776
- SAM number
- BR317
- Cadw record number
- 4192
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 ridge to the SW of the saddle known as Bwlch Bach a'r Grib. The stone-built cairn is roughly circular on plan and measures about 9m in diameter and up to 0.8m in height. The cairn is substantially intact and commands fine views.
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 15m in diameter.
Nearby in the register
- Bwlch Bach a'r Grib round cairnRound Cairnunder 1 mi
- Castell DinasHillfortunder 1 mi
- Cwm Fforest Long BarrowChambered long barrowunder 1 mi
- Rhos FarmhouseDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.