Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Cilgerddan ring cairn
Llanddeusant, Carmarthenshire, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Scheduled monument
- Site type
- Ring Cairn
- Period
- Prehistoric
- Date of designation
- 17 September 2004
- Community
- Llanddeusant
- Unitary authority
- Carmarthenshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates (centre of the scheduled area)
- 51.92246, -3.81331
- SAM number
- CM329
- Cadw record number
- 4108
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 1860 "41. Caermathen." (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 ring cairn, probably dating to the Bronze Age (c.2300 BC - 800 BC) and situated within open moorland just below the summit of a locally prominent hill. The monument is situated on an E-facing terrace. The grass-covered ring cairn is circular on plan and measures about 50m in diameter within a stony ring bank spread to about 4m in thickness and up to 0.2m in height. The interior of the ring cairn is level.
The monument is of national importance for its potential to enhance our knowledge of prehistoric burial and ritual. The monument is well preserved and is an important relic of a prehistoric funerary and ritual landscape, retaining significant archaeological potential.
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 60m in diameter.
Nearby in the register
- Cae Sara Lead MineLead Mineunder 1 mi
- Bedw HirionDomesticunder 1 mi
- CoedweddusDomestic1 mi
- MandinamDomestic2 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.