Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Orseddwen cairn
Glyntraian, Wrexham, Wales
A scheduled monument in Glyntraian, Wrexham, recorded as Round Cairn (Prehistoric).
The record
- Designation
- Scheduled monument
- Site type
- Round Cairn
- Period
- Prehistoric
- Date of designation
- 26 May 2004
- Community
- Glyntraian
- Unitary authority
- Wrexham
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates (centre of the scheduled area)
- 52.89830, -3.12025
- SAM number
- DE292
- Cadw record number
- 4025
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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 prehistoric burial cairn, probably dating to the Bronze Age (c.2300 BC - 800 BC) and situated within improved pasture on the rounded summit of a locally imposing hill. The stone-built cairn is circular on plan and measures about 13m in diameter and up to 1.5m in height. The cairn has been opened in the past, the antiquarian report of 1851 describing a rock-cut grave containing an extended inhumation and part of a bronze dagger.
The monument is of national importance for its potential to enhance our knowledge of prehistoric burial and ritual. 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 secondary burial or ritual deposits and environmental and structural evidence, including a buried prehistoric land surface.
The area to be scheduled comprises the remains described and an area around them within which related evidence may be expected to survive. It is circular and measures 20m in diameter.
Nearby in the register
- Offa's Dyke: Section from Footpath S of Pen-y-Bryn to OrseddwenLinear Earthwork1 mi
- Briwnant FarmhouseDomestic1 mi
- Multi-purpose Farm Building at Briwnant FarmAgriculture and Subsistence1 mi
- Cow-house with attached Cart-shed and Stables at Llangwryd UchafAgriculture and Subsistence2 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.