Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Two Cairns North of Plasnewydd
Corwen, Denbighshire, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Scheduled monument
- Site type
- Round Cairn
- Period
- Prehistoric
- Date of designation
- 12 September 2000
- Community
- Corwen
- Unitary authority
- Denbighshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates (centre of the scheduled area)
- 52.96135, -3.29447
- SAM number
- DE272
- Cadw record number
- 825
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 two burial cairns, probably dating to the Bronze Age (c. 2300 - 800 BC). The cairns are visible as low mounds of stones and earth and stand to a height of no more than 0.4m and 12m and 14m in diameter.
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, measuring 22m and 35m, centred on the two cairns.
Nearby in the register
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- Tyn-y-WernDomesticunder 1 mi
- Carrog UchafDomestic1 mi
- Deeside SlateworksWater Power System1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.