Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Capel Hiraethog Earth Circles
Cyffylliog, Denbighshire, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Scheduled monument
- Site type
- Ring Cairn
- Period
- Prehistoric
- Community
- Cyffylliog
- Unitary authority
- Denbighshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates (centre of the scheduled area)
- 53.08013, -3.44022
- SAM number
- DE043
- Cadw record number
- 3797
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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 ring cairn of earth and stone, which probably dates to the Bronze Age (c. 2300 - 800 BC), and lies some 360m above sea level in a shallow upland saddle. The cairn lies in a clearing on the edge of the forest with an interior diameter of 15m, the bank is 0.6m in height and 2m wide. A stone remains embedded in the bank on the north side of the circle and the ground in the centre is undulating. The site of a smaller eastern circle, being some 10m across, is on raised undulating ground to the north of the road, but no evidence remains of this circle.
The monument is of national importance for its potential to enhance our knowledge of prehistoric burial and ritual practices. The feature is an important relic of a prehistoric funerary and ritual landscape and retains significant archaeological potential. There is a strong probability of the presence of both intact ritual and burial deposits, together with environmental and structural evidence. Ring cairns may be part of a larger cluster of monuments and their importance can further enhanced by their group value.
The scheduled area comprises the remains described and areas around them within which related evidence may be expected to survive.
Nearby in the register
- Capel Hiraethog Round BarrowRound Barrowunder 1 mi
- Pont Traws-afonTransportunder 1 mi
- Bedd EmlynRound Barrow1 mi
- Bryn Beddau Round BarrowsRound Barrow1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.