Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Mynydd Enlli Round Barrow, Bardsey Island
Aberdaron, Gwynedd, Wales
A scheduled monument in Aberdaron, Gwynedd, recorded as Round Barrow (Prehistoric).
The record
- Designation
- Scheduled monument
- Site type
- Round Barrow
- Period
- Prehistoric
- Community
- Aberdaron
- Unitary authority
- Gwynedd
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates (centre of the scheduled area)
- 52.76096, -4.78375
- SAM number
- CN140
- Cadw record number
- 2436
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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)
- 1799 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1883 · Watershed map England, Wales 3. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1898 · 133 Bardsey Island (Hills) (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.
An earthen mound 6 m in diameter, and about 1 m high. It sits on a levelled platform. The barrow has been badly disturbed by Manx Shearwater burrows.
Nearby in the register
- Huts on Mynydd Enlli, Bardsey IslandHut Circle Settlementunder 1 mi
- CristinDomesticunder 1 mi
- Walls to CristinDomesticunder 1 mi
- Walled Court at CristinDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.