Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Mynydd Rhiw Stone Axe Factory
Botwnnog, Gwynedd, Wales
A scheduled monument in Botwnnog, Gwynedd, recorded as Axe factory (Prehistoric).
The record
- Designation
- Scheduled monument
- Site type
- Axe factory
- Period
- Prehistoric
- Date of designation
- 5 December 1985
- Community
- Botwnnog
- Unitary authority
- Gwynedd
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates (centre of the scheduled area)
- 52.83776, -4.62341
- SAM number
- CN207
- Cadw record number
- 554
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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)
- 1830 · V.3:11-15:XV. Britisches Reich. A. Kon: England. b. Frstenthum Wales: Shire: 37-40 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1883 · Watershed map England, Wales 3. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1899 · 134 Pwllheli (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 9 and 10. (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.
Three quarry scoops of Neolithic date, associated with stone axe production. Each is approx. 5 m in diameter, terraced into the hill slope with a pronounced bank on the W side and slighter on E. Now in heather moorland with shale exposed in places. It is one of very few surviving sites in Britain with evidence of stone axe production, and is linked with the Neolithic axe trade.
The monument is of national importance for its potential to enhance our knowledge of Neolithic stone axe production and trade. It retains significant archaeological potential, with a strong probability of the presence of associated archaeological features and deposits.
The scheduled area comprises the remains described and areas around them within which related evidence may be expected to survive.
Nearby in the register
- Mynydd Rhiw Round CairnsRound Cairnunder 1 mi
- Tanyffordd (aka Tanybwlch)Domesticunder 1 mi
- Pic-y-parcDomesticunder 1 mi
- FrondegDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.