Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Pennant Cairns
Llandrillo, Denbighshire, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Scheduled monument
- Site type
- Round Barrow
- Period
- Prehistoric
- Date of designation
- 29 February 2000
- Community
- Llandrillo
- Unitary authority
- Denbighshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates (centre of the scheduled area)
- 52.88895, -3.42414
- SAM number
- DE258
- Cadw record number
- 839
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 two earthen built round barrows, which probably date to the Bronze Age (c. 2300 - 800 BC). The barrows are circular in shape on plan and have a rounded profile. Cairn I measures 10m in diameter with two peripherally located stone lined cists, and perhaps also a central cist although this is less clearly defined. Cairn II is slightly smaller in size and has only one cist.
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. It is a recangle and measures 30m x 70m.
Nearby in the register
- Cefn Penagored Ridge CairnsKerb Cairnunder 1 mi
- Nant Esgeiriau CairnRound Cairnunder 1 mi
- Cairns, Settlements & Field Systems of Prehistoric & Medieval date at Pennant above Nant EsgeiriauRing Cairnunder 1 mi
- Cefn Penagored Cairn and Ring CairnKerb Cairnunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.