Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Mynydd Cricor Barrow
Llanbedr Dyffryn Clwyd, Denbighshire, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Scheduled monument
- Site type
- Round Barrow
- Period
- Prehistoric
- Date of designation
- 24 August 2000
- Community
- Llanbedr Dyffryn Clwyd
- Unitary authority
- Denbighshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates (centre of the scheduled area)
- 53.04347, -3.27379
- SAM number
- DE266
- Cadw record number
- 827
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 on the ridge of Mynydd Cricor. The barrow is visible as a distinct mound formed from earth and stones which measures 9m in diameter and rises to a height of 0.8m above the surrounding ground level.
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 14m, centred on the barrow.
Nearby in the register
- DingleDomesticunder 1 mi
- MilestoneTransportunder 1 mi
- Rhos Lydan Round BarrowsRound Barrow1 mi
- Cartshed at Glan-hespinAgriculture and Subsistence1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.