Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Craig Arthur Kerb Cairn
Llantysilio, Denbighshire, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Scheduled monument
- Site type
- Kerb Cairn
- Period
- Prehistoric
- Date of designation
- 21 August 2000
- Community
- Llantysilio
- Unitary authority
- Denbighshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates (centre of the scheduled area)
- 53.01528, -3.15927
- SAM number
- DE262
- Cadw record number
- 1661
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.
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 a highly visible feature of the Ruabon landscape and measures 15m in diameter and stands to a height of over 1m 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 circular and measures 20m in diameter, centred on the cairn.
Nearby in the register
- Tan-y-graigDomesticunder 1 mi
- Ty CanolDomesticunder 1 mi
- Old Farmhouse at Ty-brithDomesticunder 1 mi
- Agricultural range to the W of Plas-uchafAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.