Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Bwlch Cowlyd cairn
Capel Curig, Conwy, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Scheduled monument
- Site type
- Round Cairn
- Period
- Prehistoric
- Date of designation
- 29 January 2004
- Community
- Capel Curig
- Unitary authority
- Conwy
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates (centre of the scheduled area)
- 53.12861, -3.92799
- SAM number
- CN362
- Cadw record number
- 4082
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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 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 on the lower SW-facing slopes of Cwm Tal-y-braich. The grass and reed covered stone built cairn is circular on plan and measures about 8m in diameter and up to 0.9m in height. The cairn has been disturbed in the past, with several rubble-filled hollows visible in the centre and a large exposed cist (with adjacent capstone) on the SW side. Several kerbstones are visible.
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 importance of the monument is further enhanced by the group value formed by the proximity of the cairn to nearby monuments of similar date: Afon Bedol cairn and standing stone (CN360), Afon Bedol cist (CN361) and Nant y Benglog cairn (CN370).
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 25m in diameter.
Nearby in the register
- Afon Bedol cistCist burialunder 1 mi
- Afon Bedol cairn and standing stoneRound Cairnunder 1 mi
- Nant y Benglog cairnRound Cairnunder 1 mi
- Telford Milestone (38)Transportunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.