Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Yr Orsedd, cairn to NNW of
Llanfairfechan, Conwy, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Scheduled monument
- Site type
- Round Cairn
- Period
- Prehistoric
- Date of designation
- 10 May 2004
- Community
- Llanfairfechan
- Unitary authority
- Conwy
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates (centre of the scheduled area)
- 53.22993, -3.96252
- SAM number
- CN341
- Cadw record number
- 4049
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 1883 "Watershed map England, Wales 3." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Cadw's description
Summary description and reason for designation
The following provides a general description of the Scheduled Ancient Monument.
The monument comprises the remains of a burial cairn, probably dating to the Bronze Age (c.2300 BC - 800 BC) and situated within open moorland, prominently set on a slight terrace in the centre of a natural amphitheatre on the lower NNW-facing slopes of Yr Orsedd. The stone-built cairn is circular on plan and measures about 7m in diameter and up to 0.6m in height. There is an exposed cist in the centre of the cairn, constructed of several long, thin orthostats. A large capstone is situated immediately to the SW of the cist. The cairn boasts fine views of the Lavan Sands and Conwy Bay.
The monument is of national importance for its potential to enhance our knowledge of prehistoric burial and ritual. The 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, including a buried prehistoric land surface.
The area to be scheduled comprises the remains described and an area around them within which related evidence may be expected to survive. It is circular and measures 18m in diameter.
Nearby in the register
- Foel Dduarth, cairn to NE ofRound Cairnunder 1 mi
- Foel Dduarth EnclosureEnclosureunder 1 mi
- Carnedd y Saeson & Neighbouring Cairns NW of Foel DduarthCairnfieldunder 1 mi
- Hut Group 750m SE of Bod SilinEnclosed hut circleunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.