Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Nant Geifaes Cairn
Melindwr, Ceredigion, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Scheduled monument
- Site type
- Ring Cairn
- Period
- Prehistoric
- Date of designation
- 14 November 2007
- Community
- Melindwr
- Unitary authority
- Ceredigion
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates (centre of the scheduled area)
- 52.43303, -3.86692
- SAM number
- CD232
- Cadw record number
- 1212
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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 prehistoric ring cairn, probably dating to the Bronze Age (c. 2300 - 800 BC). It is located on top of an E-facing spur and overlooks the confluence of Nant Geifaes and Nant Glan-dwr. The structure consists of a low, turf-covered stone bank measuring c. 12m in diameter. The bank is circular in shape on plan and measures c. 0.35m in height and a uniform 2m in width. The interior of the cairn is lower than the external ground level beyond the bank. A later rectangular-shaped sheepfold is located 2m to the E.
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 both intact burial or ritual deposits, together with structural evidence. The importance of the monument is further enhanced by the group value formed by the association of the cairn with standing stone pairs to the NNW and W respectively.
The scheduled area comprises the remains described and an area around within which related evidence may be expected to survive. It is circular in shape and measures 20m in diameter. No part of the later sheepfold is included within the scheduled area.
Nearby in the register
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- Lluest Pencraig Ddu Deserted Rural SettlementDeserted Rural Settlement1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.