Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Cefn Penagored Ridge Cairns
Llandrillo, Denbighshire, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Scheduled monument
- Site type
- Kerb Cairn
- Period
- Prehistoric
- Date of designation
- 29 February 2000
- Community
- Llandrillo
- Unitary authority
- Denbighshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates (centre of the scheduled area)
- 52.89099, -3.42677
- SAM number
- DE256
- Cadw record number
- 837
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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 burial cairn, with a kerb of edge-set stones defining the edge, which probably dates to the Bronze Age (c.2300 BC - 800 BC). The cairn is circular in plan and has a central rectangular burial cist lined by stone slabs. The cairn is accompanied by two simple round barrows, possibly satellite cairns, both measuring 3m in diameter and 0.3m high. There are no signs that these have ever been disturbed. Other features have also been recorded within the scheduled area, including a low wall or bank.
The monument is of national importance for its potential to enhance our knowledge of prehistoric burial and ritual practices. The monument is an important relic of a prehistoric funerary and ritual landscape and retains significant archaeological potential, with a strong probability of the presence of both structural evidence and intact burial or ritual deposits. Kerb 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. It is a square and measures 70m x 70m.
Nearby in the register
- Cefn Penagored Cairn and Ring CairnKerb Cairnunder 1 mi
- Pennant CairnsRound Barrowunder 1 mi
- Two Ring Cairns West of Cwm TywyllRing Cairnunder 1 mi
- Cwm Tywyll House PlatformsHouse Platformunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.