Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Sand Hill round cairn
Ystradfellte, Powys, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Scheduled monument
- Site type
- Round Cairn
- Period
- Prehistoric
- Date of designation
- 27 February 2006
- Community
- Ystradfellte
- Unitary authority
- Powys
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates (centre of the scheduled area)
- 51.82298, -3.61076
- SAM number
- BR331
- Cadw record number
- 4251
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 a locally prominent summit overlooking the area to the SE. The well-defined stone-built cairn is circular on plan and measures about 8.5m in diameter and up to 0.5m in height. Although it has been disturbed in the past - a small modern cairn has been built upon its N side - the majority 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 22m in diameter.
Nearby in the register
- Sand Hill ring cairnRing Cairnunder 1 mi
- Pillow Mounds at Pant MawrPillow Mound1 mi
- Round Cairn NW of Blaen-Nedd IsafRound Cairn1 mi
- Outbuilding at BerthlwydAgriculture and Subsistence2 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.