Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Twyn Ceilog Round Cairn
Llangynidr, Powys, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Scheduled monument
- Site type
- Round Cairn
- Period
- Prehistoric
- Date of designation
- 26 November 2008
- Community
- Llangynidr
- Unitary authority
- Powys
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates (centre of the scheduled area)
- 51.80930, -3.30813
- SAM number
- BR389
- Cadw record number
- 1118
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 summit of the E-facing crags of Twyn Ceilog in the Eastern Brecon Beacons. The stone-built cairn is circular on plan and measures about 8m in diameter and 1.5m in height. The cairn appears undisturbed, although a drystone wall extends to the N to form a shelter. It is situated on the crest of a limestone ridge and is intervisible with many similar cairns in the surrounding landscape. Distinct stretches of kerb are visible, particularly on the SW side.
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 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
- Carn y Bugail and Carn FelenRound Cairnunder 1 mi
- Trefil Quarries NorthQuarry1 mi
- Afon Sirhowy hut circleHut Circle Settlement1 mi
- Waun y Gwair CairnRound Cairn1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.