Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Tythegston Long Barrow
Merthyr Mawr, Bridgend, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Scheduled monument
- Site type
- Long Barrow
- Period
- Prehistoric
- Date of designation
- 8 January 1959
- Community
- Merthyr Mawr
- Unitary authority
- Bridgend
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates (centre of the scheduled area)
- 51.50078, -3.63713
- SAM number
- GM022
- Cadw record number
- 2862
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 1636 "Cornubia : Devonia, Somersetus, Dorcestria, Wiltonia, Glocestria ..." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Cadw's description
Summary description and reason for designation
The following provides a description of the Scheduled Ancient Monument.
The monument consists of the remains of a long barrow. A long barrow is a rectangular or trapezoidal earthen mound of Neolithic date (c. 4400-2900 BC), usually accompanied by flanking or encircling ditches, and normally associated with human remains. The barrow survives as an oval, disturbed stony mound measuring about 30m east-north-east to west-south-west by up to 17m transversely. The broadest end is on the east where it is measures up to 1.8m in height. A massive capstone measuring 4.5m long by 1.8m wide and 0.4m high with an infilled chamber beneath is visible on the summit.
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 scheduled area comprises the remains described and an area around them within which related evidence may be expected to survive.
Nearby in the register
- Mile markerTransportunder 1 mi
- Gate piers to Tythegston CourtDomesticunder 1 mi
- Church of St TudwgReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Cross in Tythegston ChurchyardCrossunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.