Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Southernmost Cairn on Pen Plynlimon-Fawr
Blaenrheidol, Ceredigion, Wales
A scheduled monument in Blaenrheidol, Ceredigion, recorded as Round Cairn (Prehistoric).
The record
- Designation
- Scheduled monument
- Site type
- Round Cairn
- Period
- Prehistoric
- Date of designation
- 5 August 1991
- Community
- Blaenrheidol
- Unitary authority
- Ceredigion
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates (centre of the scheduled area)
- 52.46625, -3.78344
- SAM number
- CD150
- Cadw record number
- 2575
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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)
- 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)
- 1899 · 163 Aberystwyth (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 Monument.
The monument comprises the remains of a burial cairn, probably dating to the Bronze Age (c. 2300 - 800 BC). It is the southernmost and best preserved cairn on the summit of Pen Plynlimon-Fawr. The cairn is 15 metres in diameter and about 3 metres in height, including a modern cairn on the top.
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 intact burial or ritual deposits, together with environmental and structural evidence. Cairns may be part of a larger cluster of monuments and their importance can be 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
- Central Cairn on Pen Plynlimon-FawrRound Cairnunder 1 mi
- North Cairn on Pen Plynlimon-FawrRound Cairnunder 1 mi
- Cairn on Pen Lluest-y-CarnRound Cairnunder 1 mi
- Y Garn, 2400m NNW of Eisteddfa-GurigRound Cairn1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.