Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Carn Twrch round cairn
Llanfair-ar-y-Bryn, Carmarthenshire, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Scheduled monument
- Site type
- Round Cairn
- Period
- Prehistoric
- Date of designation
- 9 December 2004
- Community
- Llanfair-ar-y-Bryn
- Unitary authority
- Carmarthenshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates (centre of the scheduled area)
- 52.10205, -3.74844
- SAM number
- CM342
- Cadw record number
- 4149
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 1608 "(13) Cambriae Typus." (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 local plateau on the SW-facing slopes of Mynydd Trawsnant. The grass-covered cairn is circular on plan and measures about 12m in diameter and up to 1.2m in height.
The monument is of national importance for its potential to enhance our knowledge of prehistoric burial and ritual practices. The well-preserved 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. Its importance is further enhanced by its proximity to - and possible association with - a similar monument, Cerrig Cedny round cairn (CM341), situated 300m to the NW.
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
- Cerrig Cedny round cairnRound Cairnunder 1 mi
- Carn Wen round cairnRound Cairnunder 1 mi
- YstradffinDomesticunder 1 mi
- Church of St PaulinusReligious, Ritual and Funerary1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.