Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Bryn Bedd round barrow
Cynwyl Gaeo, Carmarthenshire, Wales
A scheduled monument in Cynwyl Gaeo, Carmarthenshire, recorded as Round Barrow (Prehistoric).
The record
- Designation
- Scheduled monument
- Site type
- Round Barrow
- Period
- Prehistoric
- Date of designation
- 6 December 2005
- Community
- Cynwyl Gaeo
- Unitary authority
- Carmarthenshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates (centre of the scheduled area)
- 52.10913, -3.94163
- SAM number
- CM365
- Cadw record number
- 4198
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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)
- 1637 · Particular description of Wales. Cambria seu Wallia (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)
- 1899 · 195 Lampeter (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 round barrow, a burial monument probably dating to the Bronze Age (c.2300 BC - 800 BC) and situated within enclosed pasture on the S facing slopes of Bryn Bedd, between the larger eminences of Esgair Berfedd to the SE and Craig Twrch to the NW. The well-defined earth and stone barrow is circular on plan and measures about 14m in diameter and up to 0.9m in height. Although disturbed in the past (there is a large grass grown central hollow), 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 24m in diameter.
Nearby in the register
- Ty-NewyddDomesticunder 1 mi
- Ty'n-y-CornDomestic1 mi
- Craig Twrch round cairnRound Cairn1 mi
- Esgair Ffraith Round CairnsRound Cairn2 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.