Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Crug Gorllwyn Round Barrow
Cenarth, Carmarthenshire, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Scheduled monument
- Site type
- Round Barrow
- Period
- Prehistoric
- Date of designation
- 4 July 1951
- Community
- Cenarth
- Unitary authority
- Carmarthenshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates (centre of the scheduled area)
- 51.97982, -4.44493
- SAM number
- CM108
- Cadw record number
- 2122
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 1636 "Cornubia : Devonia, Somersetus, Dorcestria, Wiltonia, Glocestria ..." (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 of an earthen built round barrow, which probably dates to the Bronze Age (c. 2300 - 800 BC). The barrow measures circa 17m in diameter and survives to an approximate height of 2.3m. A hollow across the top of the barrow suggests that the barrow may have been investigated in antiquity. An OS pillar is located on the top of the mound.
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. Situated at a height of 326m OD, the barrow commands extensive 360° view of the surrounding landscape including prehistoric funerary monuments CM090, CM091, CM092, CM105, CM106, CM109 and CM318.
The scheduled area comprises the remains described and areas around them within which related evidence may be expected to survive.
Nearby in the register
- Moelfre Round BarrowsRound Barrow1 mi
- Nant Sais Round BarrowRound Barrow1 mi
- Capel Bryn EvanReligious, Ritual and Funerary2 mi
- DeneinonDomestic2 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.