Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Crug-y-rhud-hir round barrow
Llanllawddog, Carmarthenshire, Wales
A scheduled monument in Llanllawddog, Carmarthenshire, recorded as Round Barrow (Prehistoric).
The record
- Designation
- Scheduled monument
- Site type
- Round Barrow
- Period
- Prehistoric
- Date of designation
- 10 February 2003
- Community
- Llanllawddog
- Unitary authority
- Carmarthenshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates (centre of the scheduled area)
- 51.92184, -4.22017
- SAM number
- CM319
- Cadw record number
- 3985
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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)
- 1860 · 41. Caermathen. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Sheet 10. Ordnance Survey of England and Wales. . (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1898 · 211 Newcastle Emlyn (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 Monument.
The monument comprises the remains of a large prehistoric round barrow, probably dating to the Bronze Age (c.2300 BC - 800 BC). The grass-covered earth and stone barrow is situated in unimproved pasture on the summit of a large plateau and is circular on plan, measuring about 18m in diameter and up to 0.6m in height. There are traces of an external bank enclosing a shallow ditch and there is a large shallow depression within the N side of the barrow itself, presumably the result of either stone robbing or an antiquarian investigation.
The monument is of national importance for its potential to enhance our knowledge of prehistoric burial rites, social organisation and the environment. The monument retains significant archaeological potential, with a strong probability of both structural evidence and the presence of intact burial or ritual deposits within and preserved prehistoric ground surfaces below the barrow.
The area scheduled comprises the remains described and an area around them within which related evidence may be expected to survive. It is circular on plan and measures 30m in diameter.
Nearby in the register
- Former secondary dwelling at Lan FarmNo class recorded1 mi
- Defended Enclosure 300m W of Pant-glasPromontory Fort - inland1 mi
- Panteg HouseNo class recorded1 mi
- Capel Panteg and attached vestry to leftReligious, Ritual and Funerary1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.