Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Carn y Gigfran
Llanddeusant, Carmarthenshire, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Scheduled monument
- Site type
- Round Cairn
- Period
- Prehistoric
- Date of designation
- 1 September 1993
- Community
- Llanddeusant
- Unitary authority
- Carmarthenshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates (centre of the scheduled area)
- 51.88194, -3.77704
- SAM number
- CM259
- Cadw record number
- 3289
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 cairn which probably dates to the Bronze Age (c. 2300 - 800 BC) and which is sited on a break of slope above Tyla Du. The cairn is built of red sandstone blocks and measures 15m in diameter and 1.6m high and has a slightly dished centre.
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. The cairn is one of a group along the summits of Mynydd Ddu the importance of which is 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
- Standing Stone & Round Cairns S of Tyle-PengamStanding Stoneunder 1 mi
- Carnau'r Gareg LasRound Cairnunder 1 mi
- Barn range at BlaensawddeAgriculture and Subsistence1 mi
- BlaensawddeDomestic1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.