Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Hutchwns round barrow
Porthcawl, Bridgend, Wales
A scheduled monument in Porthcawl, Bridgend, recorded as Round Barrow (Prehistoric).
The record
- Designation
- Scheduled monument
- Site type
- Round Barrow
- Period
- Prehistoric
- Community
- Porthcawl
- Unitary authority
- Bridgend
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates (centre of the scheduled area)
- 51.48490, -3.70979
- SAM number
- GM103
- Cadw record number
- 405
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5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1636 map "Cornubia : Devonia, Somersetus, Dorcestria, Wiltonia, Glocestria ..." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1636 · Cornubia : Devonia, Somersetus, Dorcestria, Wiltonia, Glocestria ... (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1637 · The fourth table of England. Cornub. Devonia, Somerset etc. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1865 · England and Wales. England No. 6. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1897 · 262 Pontypridd (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1897 · 262 Pontypridd (Outline) (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 round barrow, a burial mound probably dating to the Bronze Age (c.2300 BC - 800 BC). The grass-covered barrow survives only in part, measuring about 12m from north-east to south-west by about 5m transversely and up to about 0.8m in height on its north side.
The monument is of national importance for its potential to enhance our knowledge of prehistoric burial and ritual. The well-preserved 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 further burial or ritual deposits and environmental and structural evidence, including a buried prehistoric land surface.
The area to be scheduled comprises the remains described and an area around them within which related evidence may be expected to survive. The revised scheduled area follows the route of the existing fenceline but does not include it.
Nearby in the register
- Capel y TabernaclReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Church of All SaintsReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Veronica CottageDomesticunder 1 mi
- The Farmers' ArmsCommercialunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.