Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Nant y Postau round cairn
Llanwrthwl, Powys, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Scheduled monument
- Site type
- Round Cairn
- Period
- Prehistoric
- Date of designation
- 19 August 2008
- Community
- Llanwrthwl
- Unitary authority
- Powys
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates (centre of the scheduled area)
- 52.24690, -3.57912
- SAM number
- BR395
- Cadw record number
- 4341
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 burial cairn, probably dating to the Bronze Age (c.2300 BC - 800 BC) and situated in open moorland on a saddle between Gro Hill to the SE and a N-facing spur to the NW of Gro Hill. The stone-built cairn is circular on plan and measures about 6m in diameter and 0.8m in height. The cairn has a well-defined edge and appears to be 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 topographic association with the other cairns and cairn cemetery on Gro Hill (BR394 and BR396 - BR398) and the major stone circle to the E (BR274) further increases its importance.
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
- Gro Hill round cairnRound Cairnunder 1 mi
- Round Cairn to NW of Gro HillRound Cairnunder 1 mi
- Nant y Gro round cairnRound Cairnunder 1 mi
- Gro Hill cairn cemeteryCairn Cemeteryunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.