Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Pen y Garn Cairn
Pontarfynach, Ceredigion, Wales
A scheduled monument in Pontarfynach, Ceredigion, recorded as Round Cairn (Prehistoric).
The record
- Designation
- Scheduled monument
- Site type
- Round Cairn
- Period
- Prehistoric
- Date of designation
- 30 October 2000
- Community
- Pontarfynach
- Unitary authority
- Ceredigion
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates (centre of the scheduled area)
- 52.37850, -3.76675
- SAM number
- CD194
- Cadw record number
- 1648
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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)
- 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 large burial cairn, probably dating to the Bronze Age (c. 2300 - 800 BC), standing on the summit of Pen y Garn. It is visible as a mound of stones 18m in diameter and 0.5m high. Although surmounted by a shelter and trig point the main body of the cairn appears to be intact. An unusual stonework structure extends outwards from the western side of the cairn.
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. It retains significant archaeological potential, with a strong probability of the presence of intact burial or ritual deposits and prehistoric land surfaces preserved beneath the cairn, as well as 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
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- Copa Hill/Cwmystwyth Lead, Copper and Zinc MinesLead Mine1 mi
- Gelmast Farm including attached dairy and cowhouse, cartshed and stable, and yard wall.Agriculture and Subsistence2 mi
- Barn and attached wall at GelmastAgriculture and Subsistence2 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.