Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Waun Pwtlyn Long Barrow
Llangadog, Carmarthenshire, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Scheduled monument
- Site type
- Long Barrow
- Period
- Prehistoric
- Community
- Llangadog
- Unitary authority
- Carmarthenshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates (centre of the scheduled area)
- 51.91763, -3.87876
- SAM number
- CM012
- Cadw record number
- 2093
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 1860 "41. Caermathen." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Cadw's description
Summary description and reason for designation
The following provides a general description of the Scheduled Ancient Monument.
The monument consists of the remains of a long barrow. A long barrow is a rectangular or trapezoidal earthen mound of Neolithic date, usually accompanied by flanking or encircling ditches, and normally associated with human remains. Mound construction and associated features vary considerably in type and complexity. The barrow is situated on a low rise among undulating ground on the west side of the Afon Swadde. It consists of a mound of earth and stones measuring about 30m north north east to south south west by up to 20m transversely and has a height of c 1.6m
The monument is of national importance for its potential to enhance our knowledge of prehistoric burial and ritual. The monument is an important relic of a prehistoric funerary and ritual landscape and retains significant archaeological potential, with a strong probability of the presence of both intact burial or ritual deposits and environmental and structural evidence, including a buried prehistoric land surface. Long barrows may be part of a larger cluster of monuments and their importance can 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
- Llys-Brychan Roman SiteVillaunder 1 mi
- Castell MeurigMotte and Baileyunder 1 mi
- Plas Newydd and barnDomestic1 mi
- Toll House at GlansawddeTransport1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.