Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Blaen Nant-y-Rhiw Round Cairn
Llanddewi Brefi, Ceredigion, Wales
A scheduled monument in Llanddewi Brefi, Ceredigion, recorded as Round Cairn (Prehistoric).
The record
- Designation
- Scheduled monument
- Site type
- Round Cairn
- Period
- Prehistoric
- Date of designation
- 18 August 2008
- Community
- Llanddewi Brefi
- Unitary authority
- Ceredigion
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates (centre of the scheduled area)
- 52.16574, -3.80334
- SAM number
- CD254
- Cadw record number
- 1234
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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)
- 1899 · 195 Lampeter (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 small upland cairn, which probably dates to the Bronze Age (c. 2300 - 800 BC). It is located on a flat summit in open rough pasture and overlooks the valley of the Afon Doethie to the SW. The cairn was constructed from large stones and is now largely turf-consolidated. The cairn is circular in shape on plan and measures c. 8m in diameter and measures a maximum of 0.4m in height. The cairn appears to be undisturbed, except for a small modern walkers' cairn, measuring c. 1m in diameter and 0.3m in height, which surmounts 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. The importance of the monument is further enhanced by the group value it shares with neighbouring cairns to the S.
The scheduled area comprises the remains described and an area around within which related evidence may be expected to survive. The scheduled area is circular in shape on plan and measures 20m in diameter.
Nearby in the register
- Carn Saith-Wraig Round CairnsRound Cairnunder 1 mi
- Capel Soar and attached houseReligious, Ritual and Funerary1 mi
- Outbuilding by Capel Soar and attached wall to WReligious, Ritual and Funerary1 mi
- Nant Gwyddel Deserted Rural SettlementDeserted Rural Settlement1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.