Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Pantcamddwr Ring Cairn
Lledrod, Ceredigion, Wales
A scheduled monument in Lledrod, Ceredigion, recorded as Ring Cairn (Prehistoric).
The record
- Designation
- Scheduled monument
- Site type
- Ring Cairn
- Period
- Prehistoric
- Date of designation
- 19 January 1973
- Community
- Lledrod
- Unitary authority
- Ceredigion
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates (centre of the scheduled area)
- 52.29643, -4.00308
- SAM number
- CD131
- Cadw record number
- 753
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5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1830 map "V.3:11-15:XV. Britisches Reich. A. Kon: England. b. Frstenthum Wales: Shire: 37-40" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1830 · V.3:11-15:XV. Britisches Reich. A. Kon: England. b. Frstenthum Wales: Shire: 37-40 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1896 · Sheet 7. Ordnance Survey of England and Wales. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1899 · 178 Llanilar (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 14. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1919 · Sheet 78. Lampeter. (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 ring cairn of earth and stone, which probably dates to the Bronze Age (c. 2300 - 800 BC), sited on the summit of a hill, under rough pasture, at 290m OD. The cairn is turf covered and formed from small boulders. It comprises a mound c.16m in diameter with a dished interior and rises to a height varying between 1 and 2m above the surrounding field. There appears to be faint traces of a bank around its perimeter on all sides but the east. However this ‘bank’ is less than 0.1m in height and may simply represent disturbance of the top of the cairn.
The monument is of national importance for its potential to enhance our knowledge of prehistoric burial and ritual practices. The feature is an important relic of a prehistoric funerary and ritual landscape and retains significant archaeological potential. There is a strong probability of the presence of both intact ritual and burial deposits, together with environmental and structural evidence. Ring cairns 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
- Ty'n-yr-Eithin Round CairnRound Cairnunder 1 mi
- BronfynwentAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
- Ynys Coch FachDomesticunder 1 mi
- Hafod Ithel Deserted Rural SettlementDeserted Rural Settlement1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.