Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Ergyd Uchaf Round Barrow
Margam, Neath Port Talbot, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Scheduled monument
- Site type
- Round Cairn
- Period
- Prehistoric
- Community
- Margam
- Unitary authority
- Neath Port Talbot
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates (centre of the scheduled area)
- 51.58602, -3.72459
- SAM number
- GM159
- Cadw record number
- 2250
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.
This monument comprises the remains of a round barrow dating to the Bronze Age (c. 2400 - 800 BC). It lies 300m above sea level on flat ground. The circular grass mound measures approx. 12m in diameter and 1.6m high. A central hollow in which stones are visible is located in the top of the barrow and measures approx. 3m in diameter and 1m deep. This is probably the result of past robbing or antiquarian exploration. No ditch is visible around the mound.
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 areas around them which related evidence may be expected to survive.
Nearby in the register
- Ergyd Isaf Round BarrowsRound Cairnunder 1 mi
- Margam Medieval Bath HouseBath House1 mi
- Monastic BathsReligious, Ritual and Funerary1 mi
- Chain Home Low Radar Station, MargamRadar Station1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.