Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Yr Eifl, cairn on NW summit of
Llanaelhaearn, Gwynedd, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Scheduled monument
- Site type
- Round Cairn
- Period
- Prehistoric
- Date of designation
- 28 February 2005
- Community
- Llanaelhaearn
- Unitary authority
- Gwynedd
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates (centre of the scheduled area)
- 52.98383, -4.44286
- SAM number
- CN383
- Cadw record number
- 4166
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 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 on the precipitous NW summit of Yr Eifl. The stone-built cairn is roughly circular on plan and measures about 11m in diameter. The base of the cairn is substantially intact and undisturbed and measures up to 1.5m in height. A modern cairn now crowns its summit.
The monument is of national importance for its potential to enhance our knowledge of prehistoric burial and ritual practices. The well-preserved 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 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 20m in diameter.
Nearby in the register
- Yr Eifl Summit CairnsRound Cairnunder 1 mi
- Lleiniau-hirionDomesticunder 1 mi
- Pig Sty at Lleiniau-hirionAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
- Trem-y-mor, with associated garden walls and walled pathEducationunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.