Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Ffynnon Mary Burnt Mound 300m SE of Carn Wen
Llanwrthwl, Powys, Wales
A scheduled monument in Llanwrthwl, Powys, recorded as Burnt Mound (Prehistoric).
The record
- Designation
- Scheduled monument
- Site type
- Burnt Mound
- Period
- Prehistoric
- Date of designation
- 17 March 2011
- Community
- Llanwrthwl
- Unitary authority
- Powys
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates (centre of the scheduled area)
- 52.23044, -3.49155
- SAM number
- BR420
- Cadw record number
- 1354
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5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1608 map "(13) Cambriae Typus." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1608 · (13) Cambriae Typus. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1637 · Particular description of Wales. Cambria seu Wallia (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1883 · Watershed map England, Wales 3. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1898 · 179 Rhyader (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 a characteristic horseshoe shaped burnt mound, approximately 10.5m N/S by 9m E-W and a maximum of 0.8m high. The site occupies a gentle N-S slope above the existing enclosed fields, at the head of Nant Olwyn to the SE and with spectacular views to the south. The mound is now under turf, probing revealing it to be almost entirely of stone. The central hollow or cooking pit is up to 0.4m deep and backs directly onto a small stream to the E. This springs a few metres to the N, as do several parallel watercourses to the E, accounting for the Ffynnon Mary place name, the whole area being boggy. More angular stone has been exposed in the banks of the stream immediately to the E and SE.
The monument is of national importance for its potential to enhance our knowledge of prehistoric settlement and domestic practices. The mound is well preserved and forms an element of a broader prehistoric landscape which includes a number of cairns, some scheduled.
The scheduled area comprises the remains described and the area around them within which related evidence may be expected to survive. This forms a circle 30m in diameter.
Nearby in the register
- Garth cairn cemeteryRound Cairnunder 1 mi
- Llethyr Waun-lwyd ring cairnRing Cairnunder 1 mi
- Carn-y-GeifrRound Cairnunder 1 mi
- Bridge over Cwm Trafle SE of Ty DabuanTransportunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.