Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Ring Cairn 50m North of Crug y Biswal
Llanllwni, Carmarthenshire, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Scheduled monument
- Site type
- Round Cairn
- Period
- Prehistoric
- Date of designation
- 28 March 1966
- Community
- Llanllwni
- Unitary authority
- Carmarthenshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates (centre of the scheduled area)
- 52.02806, -4.16215
- SAM number
- CM076
- Cadw record number
- 2768
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 comprises the remains a burial cairn, probably dating to the Bronze Age (c. 2300 - 800 BC) and located 20yds to the north of Crug y Biswal. The cairn is a circular earthwork measuring 5 yds wide overall and about 18ins high, which encloses an area of 15yds in diameter. There is a possible ditch outside the bank and possible gaps in latter.
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 and retains significant archaeological potential, with a strong probability of the presence of both intact burial or ritual deposits, together with environmental and structural evidence. Cairns 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
- Crug y Biswal Round BarrowRound Barrowunder 1 mi
- Crugiau Edryd Round BarrowsRound Barrow1 mi
- Derlwyn round barrow cemeteryRound Barrow1 mi
- Crugiau Leir Round BarrowsRound Barrow1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.