Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Moel Wnion cairn
Llanllechid, Gwynedd, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Scheduled monument
- Site type
- Round Cairn
- Period
- Prehistoric
- Date of designation
- 29 January 2004
- Community
- Llanllechid
- Unitary authority
- Gwynedd
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates (centre of the scheduled area)
- 53.20727, -4.02332
- SAM number
- CN347
- Cadw record number
- 4066
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 1896 "Sheet 7. Ordnance Survey of England and Wales." (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 large burial cairn, probably dating to the Bronze Age (c.2300 BC - 800 BC) and situated within open moorland on the summit of Moel Wnion. The stone built cairn is circular on plan and measures about 11m in diameter and up to 0.3m in height. The cairn has been disturbed in the past, with the construction of a drystone shelter around an Ordnance Survey triangulation pillar.
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 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 20m in diameter.
Nearby in the register
- Hut Circle at Twll Pant-HiriolUnenclosed hut circleunder 1 mi
- Hut Circle Settlement East of Bryn HallHut Circle Settlementunder 1 mi
- Cras CairnRound Cairnunder 1 mi
- Hut Circle Settlement in Cwm FfridlasUnenclosed hut circleunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.