Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Pant y Menyn Round Barrow
Cilymaenllwyd, Carmarthenshire, Wales
A scheduled monument in Cilymaenllwyd, Carmarthenshire, recorded as Round Barrow (Prehistoric).
The record
- Designation
- Scheduled monument
- Site type
- Round Barrow
- Period
- Prehistoric
- Date of designation
- 22 January 2003
- Community
- Cilymaenllwyd
- Unitary authority
- Carmarthenshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates (centre of the scheduled area)
- 51.90234, -4.69985
- SAM number
- CM311
- Cadw record number
- 3955
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5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1636 map "Cornubia : Devonia, Somersetus, Dorcestria, Wiltonia, Glocestria ..." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1636 · Cornubia : Devonia, Somersetus, Dorcestria, Wiltonia, Glocestria ... (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Sheet 10. Ordnance Survey of England and Wales. . (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1898 · 210 Cardigan (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1898 · 210 Cardigan (Outline) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 13. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Summary description and reason for designation
The following provides a general description of the Scheduled Monument.
The monument comprises the remains of a earthen built round barrow, which probably date to the Bronze Age (c. 2300 - 800 BC). The barrow is in a low lying position and is visible as a mound of earth some 20m in diameter and 0.75m high.
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 circle and measures 25m in diameter, centred on the barrow.
Nearby in the register
- Tumulus N of Goodwins Row, EfailwenRing Cairnunder 1 mi
- Round Barrow SE of Goodwins Row, EfailwenRound Barrowunder 1 mi
- Earthwork 125m South West of Meini GwyrRing Cairnunder 1 mi
- Old house and attached stable at MaengwynNo class recordedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.