Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Banc Crucorford round cairn
Cwmamman, Carmarthenshire, Wales
A scheduled monument in Cwmamman, Carmarthenshire, recorded as Round Cairn (Prehistoric).
The record
- Designation
- Scheduled monument
- Site type
- Round Cairn
- Period
- Prehistoric
- Date of designation
- 17 September 2004
- Community
- Cwmamman
- Unitary authority
- Carmarthenshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates (centre of the scheduled area)
- 51.82565, -3.93126
- SAM number
- CM326
- Cadw record number
- 4114
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5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1860 map "41. Caermathen." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 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 · 230 Ammanford (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1898 · 230 Ammanford (Outline) (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 burial cairn, probably dating to the Bronze Age (c.2300 BC - 800 BC) and situated on a prominent local knoll on the open undulating moorland of Mynydd Isaf. The grass-covered cairn is circular on plan and measures about 17m in diameter and up to 1.2m in height on its SW side. Much scattered stone covers the slopes of the natural knoll upon which the cairn has been built.
The monument is of national importance for its potential to enhance our knowledge of prehistoric burial and ritual. The monument is an important relic of a prehistoric funerary and ritual landscape and retains significant archaeological potential, with a strong probability of the presence of both intact burial or ritual deposits and environmental and structural evidence, including a buried prehistoric land surface.
The area scheduled comprises the remains described and an area around them within which related evidence may be expected to survive. It is circular and measures 30m in diameter.
Nearby in the register
- Tair Carn Isaf CairnsRound Cairnunder 1 mi
- Site of Forge at LlandyfanIron forgeunder 1 mi
- Garreg Las Hut GroupEnclosed hut circle1 mi
- Old Bethel ChapelReligious, Ritual and Funerary1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.