Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Crug-Bychan Round Barrow
Y Ferwig, Ceredigion, Wales
A scheduled monument in Y Ferwig, Ceredigion, recorded as Round Barrow (Prehistoric).
The record
- Designation
- Scheduled monument
- Site type
- Round Barrow
- Period
- Prehistoric
- Date of designation
- 20 September 1949
- Community
- Y Ferwig
- Unitary authority
- Ceredigion
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates (centre of the scheduled area)
- 52.12816, -4.66236
- SAM number
- CD105
- Cadw record number
- 755
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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)
- 1830 · V.3:11-15:XV. Britisches Reich. A. Kon: England. b. Frstenthum Wales: Shire: 37-40 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1883 · Watershed map England, Wales 3. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1898 · 193 Cardigan (Hills) (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 an earthen built round barrow, which probably dates to the Bronze Age (c. 2300 - 800 BC). The barrow is circular in shape on plan and has a rounded profile. It stands on ground sloping slightly towards the north, and is c.36m in diameter and c.2m high. The summit has been disturbed by the removal of material prior to scheduling in 1949, leaving a scar c.8m across and c.1m deep.
The monument is of national importance for its potential to enhance our knowledge of prehistoric burial and ritual practices. The features are an important relic of a prehistoric funerary and ritual landscape and retain significant archaeological potential. There is a strong probability of the presence of both intact ritual and burial deposits, together with environmental and structural evidence. Barrows may be part of a larger cluster of monuments and their importance can further enhanced by their group value.
The scheduled area comprises the remains described and areas around them within which related evidence may be expected to survive.
Nearby in the register
- Crug Farmhouse Crug FarmDomesticunder 1 mi
- Lime Kiln at MwntIndustrial1 mi
- Churchyard of the Church of the Holy CrossReligious, Ritual and Funerary1 mi
- Church of the Holy CrossReligious, Ritual and Funerary1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.