Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Cerrig Gwynion cairn
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)
- 53.24456, -3.91581
- SAM number
- CN350
- Cadw record number
- 4067
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 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 on the W-facing edge of the col that is Cerrig Gwynion. The stone-built cairn is circular on plan, measuring about 10m in diameter and up to 0.4m in height. There is an exposed cist in the centre of the cairn, constructed of several large orthostats.
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 scheduled area comprises the remains described and an area around them within which related evidence may be expected to survive. It is circular and measures 30m in diameter.
Nearby in the register
- Foel Lwyd, cairn to N ofRound Cairnunder 1 mi
- Bryniau Bugeilydd cairnsRing Cairnunder 1 mi
- Penmaenmawr Stone CircleStone Circleunder 1 mi
- Foel Lwyd, cairn to NW ofRound Cairnunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.