Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Plas-Yw Round Barrows
Cilcain, Flintshire, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Scheduled monument
- Site type
- Round Barrow
- Period
- Prehistoric
- Date of designation
- 7 May 1980
- Community
- Cilcain
- Unitary authority
- Flintshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates (centre of the scheduled area)
- 53.19363, -3.25536
- SAM number
- FL169
- Cadw record number
- 2222
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 of two earthen round barrows, A and B, probably dating to the Bronze Age (c. 2300 - 800 BC). The larger western barrow (A) measures 1.2m high and approximately 15m in diameter and seemingly undisturbed. Barrow B to the east measures up to 18m in diameter and 0.7m high.
The monument is of national importance for its potential to enhance our knowledge of prehistoric burial and ritual practices. The barrows are an important relic of a lowland 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.
The scheduled area comprises the remains described and areas around them within which related evidence may be expected to survive.
Nearby in the register
- Stable in park at PenbedwGardens, Parks and Urban Spacesunder 1 mi
- Penbedw Park Stone Circle & Standing StoneStone Circleunder 1 mi
- Round Barrow 450m E of Penbedw HallRound Barrowunder 1 mi
- Mold LodgeDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.