Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Carnedd Dafydd 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)
- 53.14770, -4.00079
- SAM number
- CN367
- Cadw record number
- 4078
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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 a burial cairn, probably dating to the Bronze Age (c.2300 BC - 800 BC) and situated on the NE-facing edge of the summit of Carnedd Dafydd. The stone built cairn is circular on plan and measures about 12m in diameter and up to 2m in height. Several kerbstones are visible on the SE arc (and also possibly on the NE arc). The cairn has been disturbed in the past, with the construction of a now-destroyed Ordnance Survey triangulation pillar and of several drystone shelters (one on the NW side of the cairn and a larger shelter situated immediately to the SE).
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 structural evidence. 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 lower down the slopes of Carnedd Dafydd (CN368) and on Carnedd Fach (CN366).
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
- Carnedd Dafydd, cairn to SW ofRound Cairnunder 1 mi
- Carnedd Fach cairnRound Cairnunder 1 mi
- Telford Milestone (33)Transport1 mi
- Braich-ty-duDomestic1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.