Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Esgair Ffraith Round Cairns
Cynwyl Gaeo, Carmarthenshire, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Scheduled monument
- Site type
- Round Cairn
- Period
- Prehistoric
- Date of designation
- 25 June 1953
- Community
- Cynwyl Gaeo
- Unitary authority
- Carmarthenshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates (centre of the scheduled area)
- 52.11605, -3.97553
- SAM number
- CM168
- Cadw record number
- 2147
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 1608 "(13) Cambriae Typus." (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 two burial cairns that probably date to the Bronze Age (c.2300 – 800 BC). The south-western cairn is c 13m in diameter and 1.2m high and has been recorded as containing a cist measuring 0.9m long and 0.5m wide and aligned east to west. The second cairn 27m to the east north east measures c 12m in diameter and 0.2m high and has a well-defined kerb.
The monument is of national importance for its potential to enhance our knowledge of prehistoric burial and ritual practices. The well-preserved 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 and environmental and structural evidence, including a buried prehistoric land surface. .
The area scheduled comprises the remains described and an area around them within which related evidence may be expected to survive.
Nearby in the register
- Careg-y-BwciRound Barrowunder 1 mi
- Ty-NewyddDomesticunder 1 mi
- Craig Twrch round cairnRound Cairnunder 1 mi
- Moelfryn Round CairnRound Cairn1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.