Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Carn Fadog round cairn
Quarter Bach, Carmarthenshire, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Scheduled monument
- Site type
- Round Cairn
- Period
- Prehistoric
- Date of designation
- 28 October 2004
- Community
- Quarter Bach
- Unitary authority
- Carmarthenshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates (centre of the scheduled area)
- 51.83995, -3.78878
- SAM number
- CM356
- Cadw record number
- 4170
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 burial cairn, probably dating to the Bronze Age (c.2300 BC - 800 BC) and situated on a local summit in the heart of the Black Mountain, overlooking the upper reaches of Cwm Twrch. The stone built cairn is circular on plan and measures about 11m in diameter and up to 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.
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 15m in diameter.
Nearby in the register
- Cwm Twrch settlement and limekilnBuilding (Unclassified)under 1 mi
- Cwm Twrch settlementBuilding (Unclassified)under 1 mi
- Blaen y Cylchau Deserted Rural SettlementRectangular hut settlement1 mi
- Llwyncwmstabl round cairnRound Cairn1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.