Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Two Cairns on Ruabon Mountain
Penycae, Wrexham, Wales
A scheduled monument in Penycae, Wrexham, recorded as Round Cairn (Prehistoric).
The record
- Designation
- Scheduled monument
- Site type
- Round Cairn
- Period
- Prehistoric
- Date of designation
- 21 August 2000
- Community
- Penycae
- Unitary authority
- Wrexham
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates (centre of the scheduled area)
- 53.00060, -3.14204
- SAM number
- DE263
- Cadw record number
- 1664
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1795 map "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).
Historical maps covering this location
- 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)
- 1898 · 121 Wrexham (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1898 · 121 Wrexham (Outline) (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 two burial cairns, probably dating to the Bronze Age (c. 2300 - 800 BC) which figure prominently on the N-S Eglwyseg ridgeway and form the eastern terminal of a line of inter-visible prehistoric cairns and circles extending westwards across Creigiau Eglwyseg. Both cairns are of stone construction and measure 11m in diameter and 1m high.
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 intact burial or ritual deposits, together with environmental and structural evidence. 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 two circles, both 18m in diameter, centred on the cairns.
Nearby in the register
- Creigiau Eglwyseg Round BarrowRound Barrowunder 1 mi
- Creigiau Eglwyseg Stone CircleStone Circleunder 1 mi
- Eglwyseg Mountain Round BarrowRound Barrowunder 1 mi
- Creigiau Eglwyseg Round Barrows & Earth CircleRound Barrowunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.