Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Pen Cerrigdiddos Round Cairns
Cynwyl Gaeo, Carmarthenshire, Wales
A scheduled monument in Cynwyl Gaeo, Carmarthenshire, recorded as Round Barrow (Prehistoric).
The record
- Designation
- Scheduled monument
- Site type
- Round Barrow
- Period
- Prehistoric
- Date of designation
- 13 March 2000
- Community
- Cynwyl Gaeo
- Unitary authority
- Carmarthenshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates (centre of the scheduled area)
- 52.07473, -3.88019
- SAM number
- CM305
- Cadw record number
- 835
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5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1608 map "(13) Cambriae Typus." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1608 · (13) Cambriae Typus. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1830 · V.3:11-15:XV. Britisches Reich. A. Kon: England. b. Frstenthum Wales: Shire: 37-40 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1860 · 41. Caermathen. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1899 · 195 Lampeter (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 14. (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 earthen built round barrows, which probably date to the Bronze Age (c. 2300 - 800 BC). There is also a white quartz standing stone nearby.
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. It is a rectangle and measures 70m x 100m.
Nearby in the register
- Cefn y Bryn Ring CairnRing Cairnunder 1 mi
- Hut at upper end of Annell Roman AqueductBuilding (Unclassified)under 1 mi
- Burnt Mound on Esgair FerchonBurnt Moundunder 1 mi
- Mynydd Mallaen Long HutRectangular hutunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.