Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Cefn Penagored Cairn and Ring Cairn
Llandrillo, Denbighshire, Wales
A scheduled monument in Llandrillo, Denbighshire, recorded as Kerb Cairn (Prehistoric).
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)
- 52.89135, -3.42986
- SAM number
- DE257
- Cadw record number
- 838
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5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1608 map "(13) Cambriae Typus." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1608 · (13) Cambriae Typus. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1795 · To Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn Bart ... the map of the six counties of North Wales is most… (Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru – The National Library of Wales)
- 1883 · Watershed map England, Wales 3. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1899 · 136 Bala (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 9 and 10. (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) and is located on the west facing slope of Cefn Penagored ridge. The cairn measures 6m in diameter and is defined by a prominent ring of large stones, some over 1m in length. A further cairn is located downslope and measures 6m in diameter and is defined by an earth and stone bank, which includs a large quantity of white quartz. There is a small stone lined cist at its centre.
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 recatngle and measures 50m x 30m.
Nearby in the register
- Cefn Penagored Ridge CairnsKerb Cairnunder 1 mi
- Two Ring Cairns West of Cwm TywyllRing Cairnunder 1 mi
- Ffridd yr Eglwys Deserted Rural SettlementRectangular hutunder 1 mi
- Pennant CairnsRound Barrowunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.