Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Ysgwennant Barrow
Llansilin, Powys, Wales
A scheduled monument in Llansilin, Powys, recorded as Round Barrow (Prehistoric).
The record
- Designation
- Scheduled monument
- Site type
- Round Barrow
- Period
- Prehistoric
- Date of designation
- 30 January 2001
- Community
- Llansilin
- Unitary authority
- Powys
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates (centre of the scheduled area)
- 52.86626, -3.20520
- SAM number
- DE277
- Cadw record number
- 114
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5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1608 map "(13) Cambriae Typus." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1608 · (13) Cambriae Typus. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 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)
- 1897 · 137 Oswestry (Hills) (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 of a earthen built round barrow, which has firmly been dated to the Bronze Age (c. 2300 - 2050 BC) after excavations by Day and Savory (1972) found two primary cremations and Beakers and a secondary cremation in an urn. The barrow measures 40m long x 25m wide. It is wider and higher at the west end where it stands to a height of 3m.
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 rectangle and measures 30m x 50m.
Nearby in the register
- Church of St. Cadwaladr, LlangadwaladrReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Telephone Call-box adjoining churchyard wall at St Cadwaladr's church, LlangadwaldrCommunicationsunder 1 mi
- YsgwennantDomesticunder 1 mi
- RhydleosNo class recorded1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.