Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Mynydd Myddfai round cairn
Myddfai, Carmarthenshire, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Scheduled monument
- Site type
- Round Cairn
- Period
- Prehistoric
- Date of designation
- 23 September 2004
- Community
- Myddfai
- Unitary authority
- Carmarthenshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates (centre of the scheduled area)
- 51.94331, -3.75036
- SAM number
- CM351
- Cadw record number
- 4161
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 1636 "Cornubia : Devonia, Somersetus, Dorcestria, Wiltonia, Glocestria ..." (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 round cairn, a burial monument probably dating to the Bronze Age (c.2300 BC - 800 BC) and situated within open moorland on the Mynydd Myddfai ridge. The cairn is circular on plan and measures about 9m in diameter and up to 0.6m in height. There is a central crater, presumably the result of antiquarian investigation.
The monument is of national importance for its potential to enhance our knowledge of prehistoric burial and ritual practices. The monument is well preserved and is an important relic of a prehistoric funerary and ritual landscape. It retains significant archaeological potential, with a strong probability of the presence of both intact burial or ritual deposits and environmental and structural evidence. Its importance is further enhanced by the group value formed by its spatial association with similar Bronze Age monuments on the Mynydd Myddfai ridge, including the Mynydd Bach-Trecastell Stone Circles (BR069) situated to the NE and the ring cairn pair situated to the NW (CM349).
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
- Mynydd Myddfai, ring cairns on W end ofRing Cairnunder 1 mi
- Pen Caenewydd ring cairnRing Cairnunder 1 mi
- Mynydd Myddfai Standing StonesStanding Stoneunder 1 mi
- Mynydd Myddfai round barrowRound Barrowunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.