Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Garn Wen round cairn
Treflys, Powys, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Scheduled monument
- Site type
- Round Cairn
- Period
- Prehistoric
- Date of designation
- 18 September 2007
- Community
- Treflys
- Unitary authority
- Powys
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates (centre of the scheduled area)
- 52.16620, -3.60485
- SAM number
- BR386
- Cadw record number
- 4316
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 1608 "(13) Cambriae Typus." (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 prominent round cairn, probably dating to the Bronze Age (c.2300 BC - 800 BC) and situated on the summit of Garn Wen, on the south flanks of the Gorllwyn. The burial cairn is circular on plan with a well-defined edge. It measures approximately 10m in diameter and up to 1.2m in height. Although it has been disturbed in the past - a large central hollow contains an OS triangulation pillar - the majority of 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 structural evidence and intact burial or ritual deposits. The importance of the monument is further enhanced by the topographical association of the burial cairn with the many other cairns that can be found within the surrounding area.
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 30m in diameter.
Nearby in the register
- LlwynmadocDomesticunder 1 mi
- Milestone S of Pantycelyn ChapelCommunicationsunder 1 mi
- Milestone S of LlwynmadocCommunicationsunder 1 mi
- Pantycelyn Baptist ChapelReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.