Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Carn Wen Round Cairn
Llangynfelyn, Ceredigion, Wales
A scheduled monument in Llangynfelyn, Ceredigion, recorded as Round Cairn (Prehistoric).
The record
- Designation
- Scheduled monument
- Site type
- Round Cairn
- Period
- Prehistoric
- Date of designation
- 13 December 2007
- Community
- Llangynfelyn
- Unitary authority
- Ceredigion
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates (centre of the scheduled area)
- 52.51675, -3.93242
- SAM number
- CD258
- Cadw record number
- 1240
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5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1830 map "V.3:11-15:XV. Britisches Reich. A. Kon: England. b. Frstenthum Wales: Shire: 37-40" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 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)
- 1896 · Sheet 7. Ordnance Survey of England and Wales. (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 an upland cairn, which probably dates to the Bronze Age (c. 2300 - 800 BC). It is located on a W-facing spur of Foel Goch in open rough pasture and overlooks the Afon Clettwr to the S and the Dyfi estuary to the N. The well-preserved cairn is roughly circular in shape on plan and measures 16m in diameter. It is rounded in profile and measures a maximum of 1m in height. The stone-built cairn is turf-consolidated around its perimeter. It is largely undisturbed, except for the modern additions of a central walkers' cairn, which measures 1m in height, and a pair of 'thrones' on the SW side, which have been fashioned from cairn fabric.
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.
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 26m in diameter.
Nearby in the register
- Llainwen Round CairnsCairn Cemeteryunder 1 mi
- Foel Goch Round CairnRound Cairnunder 1 mi
- Bryndyfi Lead MineLead Mineunder 1 mi
- Two Cairns N of Moel y GarnRound Cairnunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.