Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Circular Platforms North West of Hen Ddinbych
Llanrhaeadr-Yng-Nghinmeirch, Denbighshire, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Scheduled monument
- Site type
- Platform Cairn
- Period
- Prehistoric
- Community
- Llanrhaeadr-Yng-Nghinmeirch
- Unitary authority
- Denbighshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates (centre of the scheduled area)
- 53.09580, -3.51145
- SAM number
- DE087
- Cadw record number
- 3666
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesNational Library of ScotlandLlyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru – The National Library of WalesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
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 monument.
The monument comprises the remains of two round platform cairns, dating to the Bronze Age (c.2300 BC - 800 BC).
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. Platform 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
- Hen Ddinbych Circular PlatformsEnclosureunder 1 mi
- Bwlch-Du Round BarrowRound Barrowunder 1 mi
- Bwlch-duDomestic1 mi
- Twr yr Hill Round BarrowRound Barrow2 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.