Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Bedd Gwyl Illtyd round cairn
Glyn Tarell, Powys, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Scheduled monument
- Site type
- Round Cairn
- Period
- Prehistoric
- Date of designation
- 7 November 2005
- Community
- Glyn Tarell
- Unitary authority
- Powys
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates (centre of the scheduled area)
- 51.92654, -3.49355
- SAM number
- BR326
- Cadw record number
- 4240
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 enclosed moorland on the ridge extending to the SW of Mynydd Illtud. The grass and bracken covered cairn is roughly circular on plan and measures about 13.5m in diameter and up to 0.6m in height. The cairn is defined by a partial bank surrounding a large central hollow. Although substantially disturbed, the base of the cairn remains intact.
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 16m in diameter.
Nearby in the register
- Standing Stone on Mynydd IlltudStanding Stoneunder 1 mi
- BlaengwrthydDomesticunder 1 mi
- Roman Road on Mynydd Illtyd, North-Eastern sectionRoadunder 1 mi
- Two Cairns on Traeth MawrCairnunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.