Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Goetre Uchaf barrow
Pentir, Gwynedd, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Scheduled monument
- Site type
- Round Barrow
- Period
- Prehistoric
- Date of designation
- 5 May 2004
- Community
- Pentir
- Unitary authority
- Gwynedd
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates (centre of the scheduled area)
- 53.20656, -4.16419
- SAM number
- CN376
- Cadw record number
- 4096
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 round barrow, a burial mound probably dating to the Bronze Age (c.2300 BC - 800 BC) formerly situated within enclosed pasture on the leading edge of a slight terrace, now surrounded by a large housing development. The grass-covered barrow is circular on plan and measures about 11m in diameter and up to 1m in height.
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 20m in diameter.
Nearby in the register
- Tros-y-canolDomesticunder 1 mi
- BronwyddDomesticunder 1 mi
- Ysgol TreborthEducationunder 1 mi
- Gors y Brithdir Enclosed Hut Group & Ancient FieldsEnclosed hut circleunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.