Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Cefn-y-Gadfa Stone Rows and Cists
Pentrefoelas, Conwy, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Scheduled monument
- Site type
- Cist burial
- Period
- Prehistoric
- Community
- Pentrefoelas
- Unitary authority
- Conwy
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates (centre of the scheduled area)
- 53.06730, -3.67570
- SAM number
- DE094
- Cadw record number
- 4366
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.
Large number of stones occupying a gentle hill-slope approx. 1.3 K.M. E. of Cefn Y Gadfa and 600 M. N. of Hafod Y Garreg below Cernen Wen. The stones occur either singly or clustered and set into or obscured by the turf of a generally drier part of the field-below a steep outcrop along the N.E. side and to the W. of a rather wetter east side drained by two small streams.
The monument is of national importance for its potential to enhance our knowledge of prehistoric ritual and funerary practise. It retains significant archaeological potential, with a strong probability of the presence of associated archaeological features and deposits.
The scheduled area comprises the remains described and areas around them within which related evidence may be expected to survive.
Nearby in the register
- Hafod-y-Dre Stone Rows and CairnStone Alignmentunder 1 mi
- Nest boxes and bee boles at Maes MerddynAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
- GlanrafonDomesticunder 1 mi
- Chapel at HafodReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.