Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Carn Pen-Rhiw-Ddu
Llangadog, Carmarthenshire, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Scheduled monument
- Site type
- Round Cairn
- Period
- Prehistoric
- Date of designation
- 6 July 1955
- Community
- Llangadog
- Unitary authority
- Carmarthenshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates (centre of the scheduled area)
- 51.85416, -3.84907
- SAM number
- CM172
- Cadw record number
- 425
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 of a burial cairn, which probably dates to the Bronze Age (c. 2300 - 800 BC) and which stands on a natural rock shelf in open moorland. The cairn is stone built and measures about 15m in diameter and is approximately 2m in height. Other cairns are intervisible to the west.
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. 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
- Carn Pen-y-ClogauRound Cairnunder 1 mi
- Pont Clydach settlementBuilding (Unclassified)under 1 mi
- Moel Gornach settlementBuilding (Unclassified)under 1 mi
- Cwm Clydach settlementBuilding (Unclassified)under 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.