Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Pant Madog round cairn
Llywel, Powys, Wales
A scheduled monument in Llywel, Powys, recorded as Round Cairn (Prehistoric).
The record
- Designation
- Scheduled monument
- Site type
- Round Cairn
- Period
- Prehistoric
- Date of designation
- 6 September 2006
- Community
- Llywel
- Unitary authority
- Powys
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates (centre of the scheduled area)
- 51.95669, -3.68045
- SAM number
- BR341
- Cadw record number
- 4271
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5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1636 map "Cornubia : Devonia, Somersetus, Dorcestria, Wiltonia, Glocestria ..." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1636 · Cornubia : Devonia, Somersetus, Dorcestria, Wiltonia, Glocestria ... (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1830 · V.3:11-15:XV. Britisches Reich. A. Kon: England. b. Frstenthum Wales: Shire: 37-40 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1856 · 42. Brecon. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1898 · 213 Brecon (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 14. (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 small burial cairn, probably dating to the Bronze Age (c.2300 BC - 800 BC) and situated in enclosed pasture on the ridge running to the SE of Mynydd Bach Trecastle. The grass-covered cairn is circular on plan and measures about 11.5m in diameter and up to 1.2m in height. Although there are signs of disturbance - an Ordnance Survey triangulation pillar has been erected upon its summit - the cairn appears substantially intact, with a well-defined edge.
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 structural evidence. The topographic association of the cairn with several other Bronze Age burial cairns and stone circles (all on the upland ground of Mynydd Bach Trecastle) further enhances the importance of the site.
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 20m in diameter.
Nearby in the register
- Milestone on A40 W of LlywelTransportunder 1 mi
- ClosDomesticunder 1 mi
- MaesgwynDomesticunder 1 mi
- Cwm Henwen round barrowRound Cairn1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.