Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Round Cairn 500m SE of Moel Seisiog
Pentrefoelas, Conwy, Wales
A scheduled monument in Pentrefoelas, Conwy, recorded as Kerb Cairn (Prehistoric).
The record
- Designation
- Scheduled monument
- Site type
- Kerb Cairn
- Period
- Prehistoric
- Date of designation
- 27 February 2009
- Community
- Pentrefoelas
- Unitary authority
- Conwy
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates (centre of the scheduled area)
- 53.09716, -3.69784
- SAM number
- DE307
- Cadw record number
- 1280
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesLlyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru – The National Library of WalesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
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)
- 1830 · V.3:11-15:XV. Britisches Reich. A. Kon: England. b. Frstenthum Wales: Shire: 37-40 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1883 · Watershed map England, Wales 3. (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 Monument.
The monument comprises the remains of a burial cairn, which probably dates to the Bronze Age (c.2300 BC - 800 BC). It is situated in enclosed rough pasture on a slight terrace on the S-facing slopes of Moel Seisiog. The stone-built cairn is roughly circular in shape on plan and measures 5m in diameter and 0.4m in height. It features an exposed cist that is aligned NW-SE and measures 0.7m in length and 0.4m in width. The displaced capstone, which measures 1.2m in length and 0.7m in width, is located immediately to the SE. A kerb of edge-set stones on all but the N side defines the edge of the cairn. Although the cairn has been disturbed in the past, the majority of the cairn's features appear to remain intact and much of the lower cairn mass is undisturbed.
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 structural evidence and intact burial or ritual deposits.
The scheduled area comprises the remains described and an area around within which related evidence may be expected to survive. It is circular and measures 20m in diameter.
Nearby in the register
- Nant y Foel long hutDeserted Rural Settlement1 mi
- Maen-Pebyll Burial ChamberLong Cairn1 mi
- Maes Merddyn Ring CairnRing Cairn1 mi
- Moel Rhiwlug Cist CairnKerb Cairn2 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.