Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Cefn Cyfarwydd Cairn
Trefriw, Conwy, Wales
A scheduled monument in Trefriw, Conwy, recorded as Round Cairn (Bronze Age).
The record
- Designation
- Scheduled monument
- Site type
- Round Cairn
- Period
- Bronze Age
- Date of designation
- 9 January 2004
- Community
- Trefriw
- Unitary authority
- Conwy
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates (centre of the scheduled area)
- 53.14773, -3.86700
- SAM number
- CN369
- Cadw record number
- 4075
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5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1795 map "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).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1795 · To Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn Bart ... the map of the six counties of North Wales is most… (Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru – The National Library of Wales)
- 1896 · Sheet 7. Ordnance Survey of England and Wales. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1899 · 106 Bangor (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1899 · 106 Bangor (Outline) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 9 and 10. (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 in a prominent position on the SE-facing slopes of Cefn Cyfarwydd. The stone built cairn is circular on plan and measures about 12m in diameter and up to 1.2m in height. The cairn has a large hollow in its centre, presumably the result of antiquarian investigation. A small marker cairn has been built on the S side of the cairn.
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 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 22m in diameter.
Nearby in the register
- Pont Hafod ArthenTransportunder 1 mi
- Hut Settlement West of Allt GochUnenclosed hut circleunder 1 mi
- Klondyke Lead MillLead Mineunder 1 mi
- Taliesin MonumentCommemorative1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.