Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Capel Hiraethog Round Barrow
Cyffylliog, Denbighshire, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Scheduled monument
- Site type
- Round Barrow
- Period
- Prehistoric
- Community
- Cyffylliog
- Unitary authority
- Denbighshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates (centre of the scheduled area)
- 53.07887, -3.44547
- SAM number
- DE042
- Cadw record number
- 1014
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 monument comprises the remains of a round barrow or burial cairn, and stone circle, probably dating to the Bronze Age (c.2300 BC - 800 BC).
The barrow lies to the southwest of Capel Hiraethog Earth Circle (DE043), and close to the confluence of several streams. It has a diameter of c.6.5m, and stands up to 0.6m high. A central hollow indicates historic disturbance. Formerly the barrow was surrounded by a stone circle, but this was destroyed in the early 20th century, leaving only three remaining stones lying to the S, NW and NNE.
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 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 25m in diameter.
Nearby in the register
- Capel Hiraethog Earth CirclesRing Cairnunder 1 mi
- Pont Traws-afonTransportunder 1 mi
- Bryn Beddau Round BarrowsRound Barrow1 mi
- Bedd EmlynRound Barrow1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.