Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Bryn Du cairn
Llansantffraid Glyn Ceiriog, Wrexham, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Scheduled monument
- Site type
- Round Cairn
- Period
- Prehistoric
- Date of designation
- 15 February 2005
- Community
- Llansantffraid Glyn Ceiriog
- Unitary authority
- Wrexham
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates (centre of the scheduled area)
- 52.91599, -3.25417
- SAM number
- DE293
- Cadw record number
- 4026
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 1608 "(13) Cambriae Typus." (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 large burial cairn, probably dating to the Bronze Age (c.2300 BC - 800 BC) and situated within enclosed moorland, in a slight hollow on the rounded summit of Bryn Du ridge. The stone-built cairn is circular on plan and measures about 13m in diameter and up to 0.5m in height. Several possible kerb stones are visible on the N side.
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 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 25m in diameter.
Nearby in the register
- FodwenDomestic1 mi
- Cow-house with adjoining cart-shed S of FodwenAgriculture and Subsistence1 mi
- Ty'n y rhosDomestic1 mi
- Tomen y Gwyddel Round BarrowRound Barrow1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.