Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Nercwys Mountain Cairn
Nercwys, Flintshire, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Scheduled monument
- Site type
- Cairn Circle
- Period
- Prehistoric
- Date of designation
- 12 October 1998
- Community
- Nercwys
- Unitary authority
- Flintshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates (centre of the scheduled area)
- 53.11384, -3.16533
- SAM number
- FL194
- Cadw record number
- 1545
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 prehistoric cairn circle, probably dating to the Bronze Age (c.2300 - 800 BC). Nercwys Mountain cairn has a ring of large kerb stones, set within an outer earth and stone bank. There is no central cairn visible.
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. It retains significant archaeological potential, with a strong probability of the presence of both intact burial or ritual deposits, together with structural evidence. Cairn circles 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. It is a circle and measures 30m in diameter, centred on the cairn.
Nearby in the register
- Adjoining Farm to south of Trefrwd FarmAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
- Adjoining Barn to West of Trefrwd FarmAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
- Coach-House and Stable Block at Trefrwd FarmDomesticunder 1 mi
- Trefrwd FarmhouseDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.