Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Crug y Bwdran
Llanybydder, Carmarthenshire, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Scheduled monument
- Site type
- Round Barrow
- Period
- Prehistoric
- Date of designation
- 21 November 1950
- Community
- Llanybydder
- Unitary authority
- Carmarthenshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates (centre of the scheduled area)
- 52.03573, -4.10596
- SAM number
- CM074
- Cadw record number
- 2766
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
he following provides a general description of the Scheduled Ancient Monument.
The monument comprises the remains of a earthen built round barrow, which probably date to the Bronze Age (c. 2300 - 800 BC). The barrow is circular in shape on plan and has a rounded profile, measuring 10.7m in diameter and 1.8m high. The barrow was excavated in 1924; a stone kerb was uncovered and and 16 fragments of an urn found.
The monument is of national importance for its potential to enhance our knowledge of prehistoric burial and ritual practices. The features are an important relic of a prehistoric funerary and ritual landscape and retain significant archaeological potential. There is a strong probability of the presence of both intact ritual and burial deposits, together with environmental and structural evidence. 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
- Pant-Teg Standing StoneStanding Stoneunder 1 mi
- Old House at Dolau UchafNo class recordedunder 1 mi
- Former barn and stable at Dolau UchafNo class recordedunder 1 mi
- Cow house at Dolau UchafNo class recordedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.