Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Cras, ring cairn to N of
Aber, Gwynedd, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Scheduled monument
- Site type
- Ring Cairn
- Period
- Prehistoric
- Date of designation
- 29 January 2004
- Community
- Aber
- Unitary authority
- Gwynedd
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates (centre of the scheduled area)
- 53.22126, -4.01701
- SAM number
- CN345
- Cadw record number
- 4064
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 ring cairn, probably dating to the Bronze Age (c.2300 BC - 800 BC) and situated within open moorland below and to the N of the Cras ridge of crags on the N-facing slopes of Moel Wnion. The grass and heather covered cairn is circular on plan and measures about 11m in diameter within a stony ring bank about 1m in thickness and up to and up to 0.3m in height.
The monument is of national importance for its potential to enhance our knowledge of prehistoric burial and ritual. The monument is well preserved and is an important relic of a prehistoric funerary and ritual landscape, retaining significant archaeological potential.
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 26m in diameter.
Nearby in the register
- Cras, cairn to N ofRound Cairnunder 1 mi
- Hut Circle Settlement on Caer MynyddHut Circle Settlementunder 1 mi
- Settlement Above Ffridd DduHut Circle Settlementunder 1 mi
- Cras CairnRound Cairnunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.