Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Cefn Llechen cairns
Henryd, Conwy, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Scheduled monument
- Site type
- Round Cairn
- Period
- Prehistoric
- Date of designation
- 17 December 2008
- Community
- Henryd
- Unitary authority
- Conwy
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates (centre of the scheduled area)
- 53.25772, -3.88593
- SAM number
- CN353
- Cadw record number
- 4070
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Shown on 5 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1795 "To Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn Bart ... the map of the six counties of North Wales is most humbly inscribed by his obedient humble servant" (Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru – The National Library of Wales).
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 two small burial cairns, both probably dating to the Bronze Age (c.2300 BC - 800 BC) and situated within open moorland on the NW-facing slopes of Cefn Lechen. The grass and heather covered stone built cairns are both circular on plan and measure about 5m in diameter and up to 0.6m in height. The cairns have been inventoried as Cefn Lechen cairn A, situated to the SSE; and Cefn Lechen cairn B, situated to the NNW. The cairns have been disturbed in the past, with an exposed stone cist visible in the centre of each.
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 areas comprise the remains described and areas around them within which related evidence may be expected to survive. Area A, centred on Item A (Cefn Lechen cairn A, SH 742 749), is circular and measures 10m in diameter. Area B, centred on Item B (Cefn Lechen cairn B, SH 743 752), is circular and measures 15m in diameter.
Nearby in the register
- Hafotty Standing StoneStanding Stoneunder 1 mi
- Cefn Llechen Stone CircleStone Circleunder 1 mi
- Ring Cairn North-West of Llyn y WrachRing Cairnunder 1 mi
- Bryn Derwydd stone circleStone Circleunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.