Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Round Barrows N of Breach Farm
Cowbridge with Llanblethian, Vale of Glamorgan, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Scheduled monument
- Site type
- Round Barrow
- Period
- Prehistoric
- Community
- Cowbridge with Llanblethian
- Unitary authority
- Vale of Glamorgan
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates (centre of the scheduled area)
- 51.45389, -3.48353
- SAM number
- GM104
- Cadw record number
- 3464
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 general description of the Scheduled Ancient Monument.
The monument comprises the remains of four earthen built round barrows, which probably date to the Bronze Age (c. 2300 - 800 BC).
Barrow A - a very low mound c. 0.2m high with an indeterminate diameter. This is the most westerly of the group.
Barrow B - This is a large low mound with a maximum height of 1m and a diameter of 33m. Its south-eastern sides is cut by the modern road.
Barrow C - This is a large low mound, with a maximum height of 1.2m and diameter of 35m.
Barrow D - This barrow is the most easterly and largest of the group. The western half is in a grass field, the eastern half in a small wood. The mound measures 1.8m high by 30m in diameter.
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
- Breach Farm HouseDomesticunder 1 mi
- Milepost at the Carne Arms PHTransportunder 1 mi
- Great HouseDomesticunder 1 mi
- Former Church SchoolEducationunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.