Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Nantiwrch round barrow
Cilycwm, Carmarthenshire, Wales
A scheduled monument in Cilycwm, Carmarthenshire, recorded as Round Barrow (Prehistoric).
The record
- Designation
- Scheduled monument
- Site type
- Round Barrow
- Period
- Prehistoric
- Date of designation
- 28 June 2005
- Community
- Cilycwm
- Unitary authority
- Carmarthenshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates (centre of the scheduled area)
- 52.03848, -3.88171
- SAM number
- CM360
- Cadw record number
- 4200
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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 · 212 Llandovery (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1898 · 212 Llandovery (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 round barrow, a burial monument probably dating to the Bronze Age (c.2300 BC - 800 BC) and situated within enclosed pasture on the rounded summit above and to the E of Nantiwrch. The earth and stone barrow is circular on plan and measures about 15.5m in diameter and up to 0.5m in height. Although denuded by ploughing and stone robbing in the past, the base of this barrow remains substantially intact.
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.
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
- Roman Road c. 400m S of Benlan FarmRoad1 mi
- Berrisbrook Standing StonesStanding Stone1 mi
- Berrisbrook Old FarmhouseDomestic1 mi
- Hut at upper end of Annell Roman AqueductBuilding (Unclassified)2 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.