Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Crug Gwyn Round Barrow
Llanpumsaint, Carmarthenshire, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Scheduled monument
- Site type
- Round Barrow
- Period
- Prehistoric
- Date of designation
- 4 July 1951
- Community
- Llanpumsaint
- Unitary authority
- Carmarthenshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates (centre of the scheduled area)
- 51.96377, -4.32933
- SAM number
- CM117
- Cadw record number
- 2126
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 earthen built round barrow, which probably date to the Bronze Age (c. 2300 - 800 BC). The barrowmeasures 75ft in diameter and stands upto 3ft high with a kerb of whicte boulders some of which measure 4ft square. The surface of the barrow has been disturbed.
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
- Crug Fach Round BarrowRound Barrowunder 1 mi
- Crugiau Fach Round BarrowsRound Barrowunder 1 mi
- Gilfach-Fach Round BarrowRound Barrowunder 1 mi
- Gareg Hir Standing StoneStanding Stone1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.