Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Bodyst-uchaf ring cairn
Cwmamman, Carmarthenshire, Wales
A scheduled monument in Cwmamman, Carmarthenshire, recorded as Ring Cairn (Prehistoric).
The record
- Designation
- Scheduled monument
- Site type
- Ring Cairn
- Period
- Prehistoric
- Date of designation
- 10 January 2005
- Community
- Cwmamman
- Unitary authority
- Carmarthenshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates (centre of the scheduled area)
- 51.79181, -3.94011
- SAM number
- CM330
- Cadw record number
- 4109
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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 ring cairn, probably dating to the Bronze Age (c.2300 BC - 800 BC) and situated within open moorland on the leading edge of the W-facing side of the northernmost ridge of Mynydd y Betws. The grass-covered ring cairn is circular on plan and measures about 13m in diameter within a stony ring bank spread to about 2m in thickness and up to 0.3m 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, with a strong probability of the presence of both intact burial or ritual deposits and environmental and structural evidence.
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 20m in diameter.
Nearby in the register
- Waun-hir post-medieval lluest farmsteadFarmsteadunder 1 mi
- Capel BethaniaReligious, Ritual and Funerary1 mi
- Capel BrynseionReligious, Ritual and Funerary1 mi
- Round Cairns 430m North West of HenrhydRound Cairn1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.