Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Crug Bach Round Barrow
Llangeler, Carmarthenshire, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Scheduled monument
- Site type
- Round Barrow
- Period
- Prehistoric
- Date of designation
- 5 July 1951
- Community
- Llangeler
- Unitary authority
- Carmarthenshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates (centre of the scheduled area)
- 51.97794, -4.33986
- SAM number
- CM112
- Cadw record number
- 2777
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 a round barrow, which probably dates to the Bronze Age (c. 2300 - 800 BC). It is located on a low summit towards the SW end of a ridge and overlooks the Afon Duad valley to the SE. The barrow is situated in a firebreak strip of rough moorland between two adjacent parcels of forestry plantation. The scrub-covered mound is circular in shape on plan and measures 25m in diameter. It is rounded in profile and measures 1.6m in height. A NE-SW aligned hedge bank and ditch cuts across the mound.
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, including a buried prehistoric land surface. The importance of the monument is further enhanced by the group value it shares with adjacent barrows to the NE and SW.
The area scheduled comprises the remains described and an area around within which related evidence may be expected to survive. It is circular and measures 35m in diameter.
Nearby in the register
- Crug Glas Round BarrowRound Barrowunder 1 mi
- Carn Wen Round BarrowRound Barrowunder 1 mi
- Gareg Hir Standing StoneStanding Stoneunder 1 mi
- Crugiau Fach Round BarrowsRound Barrowunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.