Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Ergyd Isaf Round Barrows
Tai-Bach, Neath Port Talbot, Wales
A scheduled monument in Tai-Bach, Neath Port Talbot, recorded as Round Cairn (Prehistoric).
The record
- Designation
- Scheduled monument
- Site type
- Round Cairn
- Period
- Prehistoric
- Community
- Tai-Bach
- Unitary authority
- Neath Port Talbot
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates (centre of the scheduled area)
- 51.58383, -3.74141
- SAM number
- GM160
- Cadw record number
- 2868
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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesNational Library of ScotlandNational Library of Scotland
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)
- 1885 · OS One-Inch (Hills) 1885-1903 (National Library of Scotland)
- 1930 · OS Popular Edition 1919-1947 (National Library of Scotland)
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 2 burial cairns, probably dating to the Bronze Age (c. 2300 - 800 BC). The largest cairn measures 16.8m in diameter by 1.8m high and has a large central hollow measuring 1.2m deep. This hollow (probably the result of robbing) reveals that the mound is made up of stones and earth. To the north-east of the largest cairn lies a smaller example measuring 7.9m in diameter and 0.9m high. A slight central hollow is surrounded by a stony rim. Both are grass covered and circular in plan.
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 and retains significant archaeological potential, with a strong probability of the presence of both intact burial or ritual deposits, together with environmental and structural evidence. Cairns 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
- Ergyd Uchaf Round BarrowRound Cairnunder 1 mi
- Chain Home Low Radar Station, MargamRadar Stationunder 1 mi
- Vestry at Beulah ChapelReligious, Ritual and Funerary1 mi
- Beulah Calvinistic Methodist ChapelReligious, Ritual and Funerary1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.