Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Moel y Ci cairn
Llandygai, Gwynedd, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Scheduled monument
- Site type
- Round Cairn
- Period
- Prehistoric
- Date of designation
- 7 September 2004
- Community
- Llandygai
- Unitary authority
- Gwynedd
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates (centre of the scheduled area)
- 53.17320, -4.11051
- SAM number
- CN374
- Cadw record number
- 4094
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 1896 "Sheet 7. Ordnance Survey of England and Wales." (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 enclosed moorland on the leading edge of the NW-facing side of the summit of Moel y Ci. The stone built cairn is circular on plan and measures about 14m in diameter and up to 0.9m in height. The cairn commands fine views. A concrete triangulation pillar has been erected on its summit. On the NW side a modern shelter c.1m high and 4m wide has been constructed using stone moved from 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 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 22m in diameter.
Nearby in the register
- Gerlan Hut GroupUnenclosed hut circleunder 1 mi
- Boundary Walls/Slate Fencing to Nos.3 & 4Domesticunder 1 mi
- 3 Tan y BwlchDomesticunder 1 mi
- 4 Tan y BwlchDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.