Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Picws Du cairn
Llanddeusant, Carmarthenshire, Wales
A scheduled monument in Llanddeusant, Carmarthenshire, recorded as Round Cairn (Prehistoric).
The record
- Designation
- Scheduled monument
- Site type
- Round Cairn
- Period
- Prehistoric
- Date of designation
- 17 September 2004
- Community
- Llanddeusant
- Unitary authority
- Carmarthenshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates (centre of the scheduled area)
- 51.88254, -3.72783
- SAM number
- CM336
- Cadw record number
- 4115
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5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1608 map "(13) Cambriae Typus." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1608 · (13) Cambriae Typus. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1636 · Cornubia : Devonia, Somersetus, Dorcestria, Wiltonia, Glocestria ... (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1830 · V.3:11-15:XV. Britisches Reich. A. Kon: England. b. Frstenthum Wales: Shire: 37-40 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1898 · 213 Brecon (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 burial cairn, probably dating to the Bronze Age (c.2300 BC - 800 BC) and situated on the leading edge of a prominent and precipitous N-facing ridge on Mynydd Du. The cairn is circular on plan and measures about 17.5m in diameter and up to 1.6m in height.
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 25m in diameter.
Nearby in the register
- Llyn y Fan Fach Reservoir DamNo class recordedunder 1 mi
- Two Cairns on Fan FoelRound Cairnunder 1 mi
- Valve House on former filter beds on Afon Sawdde below Llyn y Fan Fach Reservoir, including weirsNo class recordedunder 1 mi
- Former filter beds on Afon Sawdde below Llyn y Fan Fach Reservoir, including weirsNo class recordedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.