Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Three Round Barrows in Cwm Wood
Cwm, Denbighshire, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Scheduled monument
- Site type
- Round Barrow
- Period
- Prehistoric
- Date of designation
- 20 February 1996
- Community
- Cwm
- Unitary authority
- Denbighshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates (centre of the scheduled area)
- 53.27802, -3.38634
- SAM number
- FL192
- Cadw record number
- 1482
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 three earthen built round barrows, which probably date to the Bronze Age (c. 2300 - 800 BC) and are located within coniferous woodland. The southern barrow (A) is in a small clearing, but with a dense bracken cover and some trees and measures 25m in diameter and 2m high. Barrow B is partially planted adjacant to a trackway and measures 14m in diameter by 1.5m high. Barrow C is located to the north-west of Barrow B in a clearing of spruce trees and measures 32m in diameter by 2m high. There is some bracken and tree cover.
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.
Nearby in the register
- Round Barrow 400m SE of Tai MarianRound Barrowunder 1 mi
- Stables at Ty CerrigDomesticunder 1 mi
- Ty CerrigDomesticunder 1 mi
- Dovecote at Rhuallt HallDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.