Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Cader Bronwen Round Barrow
Ceiriog Ucha, Denbighshire, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Scheduled monument
- Site type
- Round barrow cairn
- Period
- Prehistoric
- Community
- Ceiriog Ucha
- Unitary authority
- Denbighshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates (centre of the scheduled area)
- 52.90143, -3.37294
- SAM number
- DE060
- Cadw record number
- 2313
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 1608 "(13) Cambriae Typus." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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 stone-built cairn, possibly a platform cairn, which probably dates to the Bronze Age (c. 2300 - 800 BC). The cairn is c. 23m diam x up to 2m high, although the upper portion of the monument has been altered by the movement of stone to create a walkers' cairn. To the south-west is a large boulder which may originally been placed as a standing stone.
The monument is of national importance for its potential to enhance our knowledge of prehistoric burial and ritual practices. The features are an important relic of a prehistoric funerary and ritual landscape and retain significant archaeological potential. There is a strong probability of the presence of both intact ritual and burial deposits, together with environmental and structural evidence. Barrows 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
- Cadair Berwyn, round cairn on N ridge ofRound Cairnunder 1 mi
- Blaen Llynor round cairnRound Cairn1 mi
- Craig Berwyn Round BarrowRound Barrow1 mi
- Carnedd y Ci BarrowRound Cairn1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.