Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Nant Bryn Isaf Ring Cairn
Ystrad Meurig, Ceredigion, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Scheduled monument
- Site type
- Ring Cairn
- Period
- Prehistoric
- Date of designation
- 9 December 2000
- Community
- Ystrad Meurig
- Unitary authority
- Ceredigion
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates (centre of the scheduled area)
- 52.31672, -3.90809
- SAM number
- CD187
- Cadw record number
- 841
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 1830 "V.3:11-15:XV. Britisches Reich. A. Kon: England. b. Frstenthum Wales: Shire: 37-40" (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 ring cairn, which probably date to the Bronze Age (c. 2300 - 800 BC). The cairn is defined by a low circular earth and stone bank 1m wide and up to 0.5m high which forms a ring 14m in diameter. The monument is intact and in good condition.
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 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
- Nant-byr-isafDomesticunder 1 mi
- Gareg-lwyd Defended EnclosureEnclosureunder 1 mi
- TalfrynDomesticunder 1 mi
- BroncaradogAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.