Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Rhyle Round Barrow
Wick, Vale of Glamorgan, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Scheduled monument
- Site type
- Round Barrow
- Period
- Prehistoric
- Community
- Wick
- Unitary authority
- Vale of Glamorgan
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates (centre of the scheduled area)
- 51.44233, -3.56038
- SAM number
- GM181
- Cadw record number
- 2257
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 a round barrow probably dating to the Bronze Age (c. 2300-800 BC). The barrow is located on a low ridge and survives as a circular mound measuring approximately 12m in diameter and 0.5m high.
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 a circle 20m in diameter centring on the remains described and areas around them which related evidence may be expected to survive.
Nearby in the register
- Trepit CottageDomesticunder 1 mi
- Buarth-Mawr BarnBarnunder 1 mi
- Church of St. JamesReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Remains of Preaching Cross, Church of St. JamesReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.