Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Cefn Coch Tumulus
Llanfair Dyffryn Clwyd, Denbighshire, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Scheduled monument
- Site type
- Round Barrow
- Period
- Prehistoric
- Date of designation
- 23 August 2000
- Community
- Llanfair Dyffryn Clwyd
- Unitary authority
- Denbighshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates (centre of the scheduled area)
- 53.10217, -3.28389
- SAM number
- DE265
- Cadw record number
- 1665
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 earthen built round barrow, which probably dates to the Bronze Age (c. 2300 - 800 BC) and is located in the field to the south of Cefn-coch farm. The barrow is circular in shape on plan and has a rounded profile, measuring 40m in diameter x 1m high. Aerial photography shows two wide ditches surrounding the mound, the inner ditch measuring 24m in diameter and the outer ditch 45m in diameter.
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 circle and measures 60m in diameter, centred on the cairn.
Nearby in the register
- Cefn-coch farmhouseDomesticunder 1 mi
- Detached Range at Cefn-cochDomesticunder 1 mi
- Farm Range at Cefn-cochAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
- Walled Garden at Cefn-cochAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.